Show checking cutworms Cut worms in all gardening operations more or less trouble Is experienced from tho th attacks ot of cutworms cut worms sometimes a good many plants are cut ot oft in a single night this trouble Is made worse by the use ol of barnyard manure aich N Is later found to have contained the eggs that hatched batched into cut worms the use of 0 this manure cannot bo be avoided very well at least it la Is easier to light fight the cutworms cut worms than to disarrange the methods ot of doing te ile gardon garden work the worms generally shy reed near the top of uie the ground and li ur lir r tho the moisture line in wet weather they crawl about one ona plant to the other but during ordinary weather their attacks are usually delivered under the surface ol of the soli soil one ODO way aay of protecting the plants against the attacks ot of these worms Is to wrap paper loosely about them at setting time having the paper reach at least an inch below the ground and two inches above tho the norms do not seem to know bow bovo to get under or over such an obstruction in a dry time the wrapper should extend bilow the moisture line in the soil but below that line the worms will not go care should bo be taken to have it loose enough about the stem to leave the plant tree free to develop naturally in some soma cases gardeners that have many plants to protect use tin protectors strips ot of un tin about eight inches long and three inches wide are used before the tha tin Is bent into a circle the ends tor for about one inch are folded back to form two hooks that clasp into each other and make the tha joint that holds the tha cylinder together when the danger from worms la Is past these cylinders are taken off on and stored away to be used in subsequent years |