Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . e Grub; the beetle, egg, larva ;ind pupa;enlarged two and one-half diameters. WEB WORMS. 239 earth and begins to pupate. The pupa is leathery brown in appear-ance. A grayish or brown moth appears toward the hitter part of thesummer. Prevention and Remedy. As the cut worm is most destructive to corn following grass, early plowing is one of the best methods of preventing its activities. Poison can be used to good effect by mixing caVbe . ? ^ us
Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . e Grub; the beetle, egg, larva ;ind pupa;enlarged two and one-half diameters. WEB WORMS. 239 earth and begins to pupate. The pupa is leathery brown in appear-ance. A grayish or brown moth appears toward the hitter part of thesummer. Prevention and Remedy. As the cut worm is most destructive to corn following grass, early plowing is one of the best methods of preventing its activities. Poison can be used to good effect by mixing caVbe . ? ^ used ])ar!s green with bran or mid- ^1 dlings, one pound of former to30 of latter. This may be dis-tributed by means of a seeddrill. Should the worms be ingrass land bordering a corn 1^^^^^ %^ *^%.^^l^ field, the latter may be pro- n^W: tected by poisonmg fresh S^ ^ clover with a solution of paris S. A. Furbes, Staie Eniomologisi; of Illinois) 1 r „ green, one pound of pans Fig. 325. fe p 1 green to 50 gallons of water and scattering this along theedge of the field. In replantingcorn in a field infested with cut worms late planting is ^S. A. Furbes, Staie Eniomologisi; of Illinois;Fig. 325. Clay-backed Cutworm (Feitia glad-iaria). Adult. THE SOD WEB WORM OR ROOT WEB WORM. (SeveralSpecies of Crambus). These caterpillars average al)out one-half inch in length when full grown, are pinkish red or brownish, Larva feedsand covered with rows of comparatively smooth dark spots, from thecenter of each of which springs a rather coarse hair. The injury doneto corn is something like that inflicted by the cut worm, except thatthe web worm does not sever the entire stem, but eats a groove upone side. The greedy larva feeds during the night and lives duringthe day in a little silk-lined tube about one inch below the larva does not pupate before winter, but hibernates in the rilk-lined tube. In the spring its growth is completed. It then pupatesand by June loth the imag
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