| Show TO KILL CUTWORMS I 1 if a field was badly infested with cutworms cut tut worms last year it pays to apply poison bait early this spring just before the truck crops croP sare are set out advises dr george F knowlton entomologist of the utah state agricultural experiment station in areas where damage usually occurs apply the transplanting tomatoes and cabbages two or three a applications p using 10 to 13 pounds of the bait to the here acre may be needed at two day intervals to rid a field the formula tor for mixing the halt bait follows dry bran or alfalfa meal small lots 5 lbs ibs la large rge lots 25 lbs ibs white arsenic or palls pails green small lots vt 14 lb ib large lots 1 ib cheap molasses small lots I 1 pint large lots 2 quarts water small lots 34 3 4 ats large lots 1520 ats I 1 mix the poison thoroughly with the dry wheat bran ran or alfalfa meal alk fix the syrup with the water and add slowly while mixing to the bran ani and the poison mixture adding just enough to make a crumbly mixture that will ball in the rand Cut cutworms worms are the cater caterpillars or young of many kinds of night flying moths during spring and early summer the cutworms cut worms cause much injury by cutting oft off many young oung seedling plants at a point near the he sl of the he ground young beets tomatoes beans corn cabbage melons and other plants are attacked in utah dr knowlton reports these thee pests pesta usually feed at night olgat and ami during dark clouda days burrowing into the ground n short distance for tho da day y therefore broadcast the bait in late evening to avoid its drying out before the cutworm commence feeding |
