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Show CUT WORM3 IN CORfl, K.lea frnm a llalletln ti.nnt hf th aeiilh llakela .tcrlfnllarat flail... A perfectly cloan crop of corn la use. fill In keeping down the cut norma. Fow fanners keep corn (o tlean as to reap the f nil Wneflt of It aa a preventive. Asgener-dly tabird. It cannot thereforn be mmpaml to millet tale fall plowing plow-ing has born rrcotnmcndod by tome entomologists. en-tomologists. ThU It on the theory that, u the wonns pnaa the winter In little oral chambers below the anrface, tbey would lie turned up to the aurface at a time when It woell bo too hto to male this preparation again, aid won! I con trquentiy rlali. It ii not clalmnl that the Krioil In which this preventive lowing may tx done riten 1 1 over more than a very few i) lys, Jot before tho Final freeilng up. The meainre Is therefore there-fore applicable only to a small rstt-nl, and even then would seem to require an advance knowledge of the approach of winter. Our own experience nnd o'lsorratlon does not lead to definite conclnilons. An citenslvo corrct pondmce with fanners fann-ers straws tbat every pmalbte time of 1-lowlng has been. In totno cases, ap-jwrcntly ap-jwrcntly InelTrctlvc, an.1 In other cc niparrntly tuccrairnl On the whole, we lutvo rrceivril aliout four times as many favorible retts of spring plow Ingaaot fall plowing, which must be regarded as a significant anl valuable ptlnt. Itinayboaddrdthatlhelettcrare-ctlvnl Itinayboaddrdthatlhelettcrare-ctlvnl lllnatrato luethoils of observation and curious diversity of Hie cut wonn baMt rather than the support of any isirtlcnlar theory. Taken as a whole, theso rommtinlcatlons aptaiar to juitlfy the following concluilonsi In gurdens ban 1 1 Icklng, an I rrj lllng ngrnls like lime, aalnH, soot, etc , are of value in the f r Itr lininnL. In fltMt, burning off, alntntely clean culture (this InclnJes millet railing an 1 spring plowing), are tho lnwt measures aa yet known. Ileal-Ing Ileal-Ing off lb worms where thry are working work-ing Into a fir! 1 may be done by plowing a furrow a little ahead of them, leaving the irrptndlcular side toward the field to be I rotrcted. |