Show Cutworms Injure Many Vegetables Use Control Measures as asS S Soon on as Pests Put in hi Their Appearance Cutworms a general term applied to worms that cut oft off plants close to the ground will do the greatest amount of ot damage from now until the middle of ot June Junc unless control measures are taken taen as soon as the thc damage begins Paper Collar Keeps Worms Away Where a pers person n has only a a. few garden garden garden gar gar- den plants like beans tomatoes and cabbages a stiff paper collar put around the plants will keep the cutworms cutworms cutworms cut cut- worms from molesting them observes es Dr O. O P. P Gillete the state entomologist ogist Take a stilt stiff piece of or paper about the size of pf a postal card bend bendIt It Into a cylinder cUnder and place pla e around the stem of ot the plant t beneath the surface surface sur face tace of ot the tIle ground so that one Inch or so of ot the collar protrudes above e the ground One must be careful however that no worms are included ed Inside the c cylinder Poisoned bait halt Is probably the most practical means of ot control l for the sur I feeding face species of ot cutworm Doc Doc- Doctor Doctor Doctor tor Gillete advises It can be prepared pre prepared pared by mixing the following Ingredients Ingre Ingre- Wheat bran 25 pounds parts paris green or crude white arsenic 1 pound cheap molasses 2 quarts water 2 to 3 8 gallons Mix the poison and molasses molasses mo lasses In the water thoroughly Pour the solution slowly over the thc bran and mix them carefully Broadcast the poison polson mixture at nt the rate of 10 to 15 i pounds to the acre cre in the evening e so that the material will be fresh when the night feeding takes III place nee One Brood Yearly The most common species of cutworms cutworms cutworms cut cut- worms have only one brood a 11 year although a few have two broods Doctor Doctor Doc Doc- tor Gillete explains The moths which emerge from the cutworms lay their eggs on th the ground or on plants Worms hatch from the eggs and burrow bur burrow row Into the ground to spend the winter They are hungry when they emerge In the spring and quite naturally naturally nat nat- attack the tender tissues of ot growing plants near the surface of ot the ground |