Show I Cutworms Injure Many Vegetables Use Control Measures Measures' as Soon as Pe Pests Peats Put in Their App Appearance Cut Cutworms Cutworm n ft general 1 term applied to o worms that cut oft off plants close to the ground will d do the greatest amount ot of damage from now until the middle i of ot June unless control measures are lire taken as ns soon as ns the damage begins Paper Collar Keeps Away Where tt here a person has only a n few gar den plants like beans tomatoes and cabbages a n stilt stiff paper collar put IUt around the plants will keep keel the cutworms cut cut- worms from molesting them observes Dr 0 O. Pv P. the state ogist Take stiff a It piece of or paper paver about the size of ot a po postal card bend It Into a c cylinder lInder and place around the s stem m of the plant b beneath net th the sur face of ot the ground so that one Inch or so of the collar protrudes above e the ground One must be careful however howe that no worms are Included Inside the cylinder Poisoned bait Is probably the most practical means menns of control for the sur sur- feeding face species of cutworm Doctor Doc Doe tor Gillete I ad advises es It can cun be prepared pre pre- pared by mixing the following ingredients Ingre Ingre- Wheat bran 25 pounds paris green or crude crud white arsenic 1 pound cheap molasses molar 2 quarts water 2 to 3 J gallons Mix the poison polson and molas molasses mo tao las lasses es In the water thoroughly Pour th i h mc U Uv v over fie bran uran and mix them en carefully ref lIy Broadcast the poison polson mixture at the rate of 10 to 15 pounds rounds to the acre In the evening e so that hat the material will be fresh when the night feeding takes place One Brood Yearly The most common species of cutworms cutworms cutworms cut cut- worms have ha only one brood a year car although a few ew have hn two broods Docor Doctor Doctor Doc- Doc tor or Gillete explains The moths which emerge from the cutworms lay their eggs on the ground or on plants Worms hatch from the eggs and burrow burrow burrow bur bur- row Into the ground to spend the winter They rhey are hungry when the they emerge In the spring and quite naturally naturally nat nat- attack the tender tissues of growing plants near the surface of the he ground |