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necessary. As it is important for them to hide under the soil 
or elsewhere during the day, so as to escape their enemies, 
they are forced towards morning, after each nocturnal feast, 
to burrow again or search for shelter. This they do as a gen- 
eral rule close to the plant that they infest. If we furnish 
them a handy shelter they will very often utilize it. By plac- 
ing on the ground, near the plants to be protected, such 
objects as pieces of boards, shingles, or even flat stones, we 
induce many cut-worms to utilize them as shelters and here 
they remain all day. Large numbers can thus be discovered 
and captured during the day, and should be killed. 
Though there are a number of climbing cut-worms which 
infest orchards, we have not many in Minnesota that injure fruit 
trees. If trees should suffer, however, it is not difficult to 
prevent the worms from reaching the foliage. All that is 
needed is to make a thick ring of ‘‘Raupenleim” around the 
trunk; this sticky material will prevent any insect from craw]l- 
ing over it, and as it possesses at the same time a strong and 
repelling odor it is a very useful material for many purposes. 
The great majority of our native species do not climb, and are 
very much opposed to undertake such extra labor. Indeed it 
is doubtful if some of our cut-worms could climb trees if they 
wanted to. Atall events they can not climb upon anything 
that is smooth, and their inability to do so gives us another 
method to out-general this enemy. The remedy, based upon 
this habit, can not, however, be applied upon a large scale, as 
it requires considerable labor, but whenever onlya few hun- 
dred or thousand plants need protection it can be used with 
great success. By removing the tops and bottoms of tin cans 
that can be found in such abundance almost anywhere, and by 
removing the solder, we have an excellent material to protect 
our plants against cut-worms. The best method would be to 
have strips of such tin about three inches wide and long enough 
to be bent into a circle at least an inch and one-half in diameter, 
These strips are to be bent so as to form a sort of spiral collar, 
which can be slipped around the plants very readily without 
endangering their leaves. This protective collar should be 
pressed into the ground at least an inch deep, so that the plant 
is as thoroughly protected against the cut-worms from below, . 
provided, however, that the culprit be not inclosed within 
