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this circle. Such tin collars can be made during the time 
when there is little work on hand, and once made, if taken 
care of, they will last for many seasons. They are readily 
applied and as readily removed when the danger is over, when 
they should be stored away for future use. Of course other 
substances could be substituted for such tin collars, such as 
stiff paper, but such substitutes never last as well as those 
made of tin, and a heavy rain is apt to ruin them, nor are they 
so readily applied as the more elastic collars of metal. 
There is still another way to protect our plants against cut- 
worms, and a very simple and effective one at that. Cut-worms, 
like all other caterpillars, chew their food, and by coating the 
plants to be protected with either Paris-green or London-pur- 
ple, we can readily poison the caterpillars that attack such 
plants. This method would be avery simple one, if all garden 
ers and farmers possessed good spraying machines, which would 
spray uniformly all the exposed parts of the plants, of course 
including the stem, but such is not the case. Besides, in many 
cases the stems of young plants are cut off below the surface 
of the ground, where arsenical poisons can not be applied. One 
thing is certain, that farmers, gardeners and florists can pre- 
vent any great loss by cut-worms if they apply one or more of 
the above remedies in a thorough manner. 
It is well known that the parents of cut-worms, or the owlet- 
moths, can be readily captured by certain baits, which are 
brushed upon trees or fences. Immense numbers of such moths 
are attracted by them and can be killed by mixing such baits 
with arsenical poisons. This would seem to be an excellent 
remedy, but when we dissect the owlet-moths thus caught we 
find that a large number of them have already deposited their 
eggs, and have therefore done all the mischief they could do. 
Of course a large number of the parents of cut-worms still con- 
taining eggs could thus be killed, but it requires much more 
attention than most farmers are willing to give. Moreover as 
the moths just poisoned fly about for some time before dying 
they may cause the death of such animals as eat them. Domestic 
fowls would be very apt to suffer, and we would also risk the 
lives of a large number of beneficial birds and such nocturnal 
animals as the mouse-like shrews. 
