Show ra AN CUTWORMS an experienced gardeners Illeth ol of preventing their Ea karnes rages A large number of species specie of cut worms make themselves highly oknox ious to the gardener gar dellor by the impudence with which they attack and cut down almost ever every kind of newly set plants MOTH AND LARVA CUTI CUTWORM they aro are mostly clumsy and greasy looking caterpillars of some dull shade of color grayish brown greenish remain in their hiding billing places on bright blight lays ilaya and couie come to the murfa surface ce at night or in cloudy weather to seek what green grcen st stuff tiff they can d devour devour the illustration eption bom Gt irle s work how flow tomake to make the harden garden pay pi eserts both the worm and the moth of one of the species mr greiner says fortunately these worms two haae miny many natural enemies among them the robin thrushes quail wren on and other birds toads etc which t together keep their numbers down quite well rall fall plowing serves to bring many of the worms to the surface an and to expose them to birdseye view and perhaps to destruction by frost the tha fresh of their nights work can best bo be noticed bright and early in ill tile tho morning ant and they can then be lound found near the place of mischief hunted bunted up and killed before a piece of plowed ground is planted we tan can often dispose of the mafoi nia jonty ity of the worms by placing Z pieces of sod sprinkled with a poisonous solution at regular intervals over the ground round the remedy is simple and may inay ie be repeated thus making the way clear for setting plants deans beans are sometimes sometime planted for bait and in advance of the real crop whatever that may lie be the geld field is looked over on several mornings mor ninga after tho the beans ai aie e it up p and the worms hunted up where plants are seen cut off the regular crop is pla planted cited after most moet of the worms are destroyed A practice often resorted to is to encircle each plant set out with a piece of paper which should reach down dov n into tha a lf l f t SV CUTWORM protected PROTECT rD ala NT soil as the worm cannot crawl under it and extend several inches above the tha surface so it cannot crawl over it th tho picture shows how this is done and how the plan works I 1 often uso use plant pro rectors electors somewhat resembling botto bott owls flower pots which I 1 had made tor for tile the purpose as a mechanical ob obstacle to tho the cutworms cut worms lor progress ogress |