Show POISON BAITS WILL KILL OFF CUTWORMS white arsenic or paris green will prove efficient insects are especially fond of tomatoes cab cabbage bage lettuce and other vegetables they are voracious feeders prepared by the united states Depart department met of 0 agriculture cutworms Cut worms can readily be controlled by the use of poisoned bait the united states department of agriculture lias has demonstrated this Is the way to prepare and apply the poison to ore ora bushel of dry bran add one pound of white arsenic or carls green and mix thoroughly into a mash with four gallons of water in which has been stirred one half gallon of sorghum or other cheap molasses athla amount will be sufficient to four or five acres of cultivated crops after the mash hhas lias stood for leeral hours scatter it in lumps of about the size of a marble over the fields where the injury Is beginning to appear put it about the bases bakes of the plants which have been set out apply the late in the day so as to have the poison in place around the plants before night when the cutworms cut worms are active apply a second time if nece necessary ary destroy hundreds of thousands even millions of dollars worth of crop severy year throughout the untied states slates they especially attack tomatoes cabbage lettuce and other otylior vegetables that have been started burder glass and tran transplanted planted cutworms Cut worms sometimes appear in great timbers numbers in the spring and summer and frequently do severe revere injury before their ravages are noticed their method of attack 11 is to tn cut off the bant near the ground they are ot of arge rge sie aal anre yo mcclous feeders feeder capable of bosl roving many pl ints in ID a single often they olit down dow more than they etin devout |