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Show near the surface of the ground they are-unable are-unable to go deeper in the soil or to construct new cases or cocoons and they are killed by being subjected to excessive weather conditions and to the alternate freezing and thawing. Fall plowing and cultivation will also enable you to have vegetables a week or ten days earlier next spring, because you will be able to plant earlier on fall-plowed ground. INSECT PESTS EASY TO KILL IN WINTER Destroy Trash and Litter Where-ever Where-ever It Has Accumulated Cut Out Dead Limbs. (By T. J. TALBERT, Missouri Agricultural Agricul-tural Experiment Station.) Take advantage of the bugs in their winter quarters, the remnants of old plants, the trash and litter about the garden and orchard. Burn out the fence rows, destroy the trash and litter wherever it has accumulated by burning burn-ing it or plowing it under. Cut out the dead trees and limbs in the orchard and make them into firewood. This cleaning up about the orchard and garden will destroy a dozen or more of our most destructive pests. For example, the plum curculio is now wintering as a fuUVgrown beetle in the trash and litter along the fence rows or about the trees ; the codling moth will be found in the worm stage within a silken cocoon tucked away under the shelly bark of dead trees and dead limbs; and the fruit tree bark beetles or shot hole borers will also be found wintering mostly as adult beetles in dead or dying trees. Under the old stalks and rubbish in the garden and about the borders will be found the adult asparagus beetle, bean-leaf beetle, harlequin cabbage bug, flea beetles, the striped cucumber beetle bee-tle and the chrysalis of the cabbage worm. If you want to kill these pests, pile and 'urn dead tomato and pea vines and other remains of vegetation In the garden and along the border. Deep fall or early winter plowing will also destroy many insects. This is especially true of the cutworms, potato po-tato beetles, white grubs and wire worms which are now hibernating in the soil. Late fall or early winter plowing will turn these insects up near ! the surface and expose them to an attack at-tack of birds, poultry and other animals. ani-mals. At this season of the year the insects are In a dormant or semldor--uant com'i lion, and when brought up |