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equally infested with cut-worms, but that they invade cer 
tain places from one or more well defined directions. As cut- 
worms hibernate they usually select those suitable places as 
offer superior shelter and good drainage, consequently the 
more elevated parts of the ground, or soil well overgrown with 
grass. The former gives good drainage, the latter good shel- 
ter. Such places can be easily detected in any garden, and by 
laying our traps in their vicinity most of the cut-worms will 
find them and be killed before reaching other parts of the field. 
Whoever applies such remedies must not expect that he will 
find large numbers of dead cut-worms on the surface of the 
ground or under the bait, as such is not the case. The cater- 
pillars, having eaten of the prepared bait, soon feel the effects 
of the poison, and will be kept running about by the resulting 
pains. In a number of cases, where crops of onions were 
badly infested, and where this remedy was applied, a close 
search was made for dead cut-worms. It was found that under 
the baits a number of cut- worms were dead or in a dying con- 
dition, but more were found as far as ten feet from the baits. 
These dying cut-worms were not found on the surface of the 
ground but they had burrowed into it in the usual way, and 
were dying in such situations. 
Another, and a very effective bait, which is mentioned in 
the article on Migratory Locusts, is also an excellent one to 
use against cut-worms. It is a bait made of rye flour, or rye . 
and wheat bran, mixed well with one of the arsenical poisons. 
The mixture should contain enough Paris-green or London 
purple to become distinctly colored by these substances. If a 
tablespoonful of such bait is dropped near the plants to be 
protected the worms will not be slow to find and to eat it. 
Such baits are especially valuable in case the plants to be pro- 
tected are grown upon land which -but shortly before was a 
meadow, pasture or timothy field, as fields in which the sod 
has not been disturbed for some years form the homes and 
very head-quarters of cut-worms. In such a case the baits 
should be prepared and laid before the young plants appear 
above the surface of the ground. 
There is another habit of the cut-worms of which we can 
make use in combatting them. They, like some more highly 
organized beings, do not like to work more than is absolutely 
