The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-07-01

state. Injuries cabbages and other cru
ciferous plants-never clover. The
cutworm may sometimes be Matched
out in a patch of clover, but are just
as likely to be Matched anywhere else,
as the parent moth lays her eggs
usually on fences, buildings, branches
of trees and such places and seldom
on low plants. But if the cutworms
do hatch in the clover patch it is in
the clover patch they will stay until
it is destroyed. The cutworm is not
the army worm, which term in ento-
biological literature denotes an en-
tirely different caterpillar (the off
spring of leuconia unipuncta) which
feeds on grasses and grain, which the
cutworm does not as rule, and which
has the habit of travelling from place
to place. The cutworm does not
''trek," as you express it, but only
travels when food runs short. 1t only
ascends fruit trees under the same
conditions.
With regard to remedies the bran
and Paris green mixture is the proper
thing and as against the cutworm
proper is the only remedy that need
be used Apply it when the caterpil-
lars are young and before all the dam
age is done. Don't trouble to dig
trenches round your clover patch and
don't bother to wrap cotton or any
thing else round the trunks of your
trees, because, as I said before, it is
the exception, not the rule, for these
cutworms to climb at all.
In conclusion let me say that my
only object in writing is that | want
to see The Ranch maintain its char
acter as reliable paper. II l lind
that it's information on subject that
I know a little about is faulty, l am
led to distrust the information it gives
on other subjects of which | may be
ignorant I am interested because |
am myself a subscriber to The Ranch
and have moreover obtained for The
Ranch 20 or 80 other subscribers this
year and I have a dozen more sub
scriptions at this moment ready to
send in. b. q.
The writer of the article in con-
troversy, entitled Look Out for the
Cutworm," takes pleasure in conced-
ing that our correspondent in British
Columbia makes a conclusive argu-
ment. Even though some of the state
ments in that article are at variance
with facts, it has served the good pur-
pose of laying before the readers OF
The Ranch much valuable informa-
ton that would not otherwise have
come to light For this our British
Columbia friend has our thanks. We
wish to state there is difference be-
tween the cutworm and the army
worm. but the two are universally con-
fused by those speaking about them
at least that is what we have seen.
Our British Columbia correspondent
has shown clearly what the true cut
worm is and we take the liberty OF
adding something here about the ar
myworm, which, as is stated in the
preceding article, is of the caterpillar
family known to entomologists as
"leucania unipuncta." This is the
common armyworm, characterized by
full hairy eyes, smooth front, we'll
developed palpi, strong tongue, sim
pie antennae hairy unarmed legs,
rounded collar, quadrate slightly
tufted thorax, and untufted abdomen.
There is another species of the same
family of caterpillars, known entomol-
ogically as "leucania albilinea," which
is the dread of the wheat farmer, as
it attacks the wheat heads. 1t occa-
h