. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO CORN. 28I to see that the poultry and livestock are not allowed access to such fields while the poisoned bran is there. In case one does not wish to or can- not readily use bran, a clover field or hay field may be sprinkled or sprayed with Paris green in the proportion of one pound of Paris green to one hundred gallons of water, and as soon as this has dried, the sprayed portion should be mowed and the clover or hay scattered in little clumps about the
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO CORN. 28I to see that the poultry and livestock are not allowed access to such fields while the poisoned bran is there. In case one does not wish to or can- not readily use bran, a clover field or hay field may be sprinkled or sprayed with Paris green in the proportion of one pound of Paris green to one hundred gallons of water, and as soon as this has dried, the sprayed portion should be mowed and the clover or hay scattered in little clumps about the field to be protected. From experience, however, I cannot advise the use of these poisoned plants where it is possible to ob- tain bran. THE GREASY CUTWORM. Agrotis ypsilon, Rott. The greasy cutworm ranks about third in importance among the various cutworms infesting the corn. It is a widely distributed and very common cutworm throughout the greater part of the entire world, and infests practically all of our farm and garden crops, as well as some fruit. The insects do not, however, have the extreme ups and downs occurring in certain years in undue numbers and in other years scarcely to be found, as is the case with some of our other cutworms. Its presence seems to be more uniform. In the ^^__^^^ Creasy Cutworm. Agrotis full grown larval condition it rat^.s-^^^'^'"'^'-^^""^^ ^''^^' ''^^''''^^ ^'''^• ures about one and one-half inches in length and is of a greasy, dark gray color above and of a greenish yellow color below. Figure 37 gives a good idea of the general appearance of these cutworms somewhat en- larged. The adult cutworm is shown natural size in figure 36. These larvae do the greatest amount of damage to the corn plants as well as to garden vegetables during the month of May and the early part of June. Like most of our other cutworms, the larvae hibernate in the ground during winter and come out in the spring in search of green plants to cut dow
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