Show FIGHTING THE CUTWORM complaints of damage b by the cutworm to in utah are quite numerous ibis year upon the of destroying this peat dela the june let lesue issue of the denver field and farm has the following fol lowin thu the presence of cutworm cutworms cut worms in a field becomes noticeable immediately after a crop has baa been set get out whether sweet potatoes cabbages tomatoes toma or what ever else elbe it may be or noon eoon after abe seed has baa sprouted fronted be b it corn onions or other vegetables all over the field plants plant have disappeared or hove have falleo fallen will show that they have been out cut or eaten off at the surface or even a little below it in the cornfield they cut off the plants almost so f fiat atiat as they come above ground and white potatoes occasionally suffer buffer as aa severely normally the insects are grass feeders or feeders upon low succulent legeta tion and in grass or of alfalfa lands or in masson masses of rank vegetation generally the moth lays laya her eggs egge other things equal alfalla alfalfa or mod od land will trill be most moat likely to be infested by cutworms cut worms while land cultivated late to is most likely to be tree free with other remedial measures are closer culture and an early fall plowing it la in important that the plowing to done early but when land has bae been win with an infested nod od covering it and is plowed in the early spring the farmer la is mot DOI quile helpless it the land is to be put iuta crops prepare an aa usual and apply all the potash and nitrogen in the form of nitrate of aoda as ae a top dressing delay seeding until rain or irrigation lima has dissolved and carried down the for fertilizer tift ere phosphates chates may be 09 applied at ai dnny time as these have no 1110 insecticide proper properties tier this thia practice will as a rule protect the corn cord crop in crops like ew et potatoes pota tots a different lerent dif method is necessary tub ue poisoned bait remedy being the best this is simply providing the cutworms cut worms with poisoned food after the soil la is prepared fur for pi planting the easiest plan is to spray a rank patch of alfalla alfalfa with one of the arse used at we rate ol of a pound in gallons of water and as soon as it 16 rise bas somewhat friou out it close to the ground next spread in little heaps at intervals over the ibe field to be protected this thia affords afford complete protection when orre fully carried out the alfalfa may be cut first made up into loose balls and dipped in a poisonous liquid the more numerous we the traps the lae greater the chance of destroying the insects they will be found in the morning an inch or so beneath the surface under the bait and after twenty four hours the majority will be dead no plants should ke be set list out until the pol poisoned bait has ha had bad an op port unity to act for two nights night at leas A modification ot of this thin plan plain which has ban been very successful with sweet potato plants consists iu in mixing dry wheat bran with parts paris green or london purple sufficient to color it faintly in weight about one of poison to fitly fifty of the bran the mixture should be b as complete as possible and then water added to a mush munh stat CAD be ladled out with a spoon without draping the water way may be sweetened to add to the attractiveness of the mixture A teaspoonful should the be placed on each hill vt of plants to 10 be protected when first set out our |