Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-22
TROUBLESOME INSECTS.
Suggestions as to the Way to Deal with the Destructive Cut
 worm

aCCOuntably. Usually, tOO the nursery man who furnished the stock is blamed; when, in reality. the trouble is often climbing cutworm who comes. like a thief in the night, to feast on the swell ing. luscious buds. And. when daylight appears. he crawls down and hides in the soil under a stick. Oh, he's sly fel- | low!
 Take a lantern, some night after fruit buds have begun to swell. and MT Cut worm will be caught on the trees, red handed In this manner some people hunt and destroy him; but there's an easier way
 This slightly reduced picture shows how this whitish fellow looks when he's
 a worm, says Farm
 &N Journal.
 -zN+s. .ll:l;,: I1,Sa4A When he's
 s--'-1--4-I-s- moth he looks even more ordinary-merely an inch-size dusky-colored flyer. who appears as in- nocent as you please.
 How many cousins, uncies and aunts this cutwOrm has would take a lot of room to relate. Some of his relatives do not climb, cOntenting themselves with biting into the stems of tender vegeta- tlon, like cabbage, corn or tomatoes; some cousins are white, and some are yellowish, greenish or grayish; some are short, some are longer.
 Fortunately, this greedy worm has ioJ, birds, etc., toads, and even spiders. But these good friends of the farmer cannot do it all. No. The farmer should help.
 Several methods of combating cut worms have been invented, but for me dium-size areas the best way we know is to fence 'em out" Not with a rail fence or wire fence. or even a stone fence. Easier than that! Just a tiny barrier of paper That's all. l, The picture gives the idea. Gut some stif tar-paper into strips about nine inches long and ,.
 two or three inch NV
 es wide. But "
 strip around tree
 trunk, tightly lap
 the edges an inch se &S,
 or more. and push
 the lower half of the circle into the soil ito anchor it and to prevent worms from easily burrowing beneath. It takes but short time-and only few cents-thus to protect several hundred newly-set trees.
 For cabbage plants. etc, a smaller band may prove more convenient. All that is necessary is to have the paper at least an inch and one-half away from all parts of the plant or tree; to have the edges Tapped tightly; and to make sure that no worms are hid in the soil be- tween the paper and the plant. Any kind of stiff paper. or wood veneer. or tin, will do; we prefer tar-paper because it is lasting and cheap.
 An orchard or garden thus protected | is safe for many weeks--until utworm danger is mostly over. Just why the worms do not ''climb over the fence" is a puzzle. But they very rarely do. The writer of this article has watched them in his own orchard at night. seen them | climb up the paper fence on the outer side. crawl all around the top. reach in- wards in vain attempt to touch the en- circled tree. and then-sullenly. disgust edly-crawl down on the outside. the way they had come! That they do not often crawl down on the inside. is a cu- rious fact
 Another way of fighting cutworms. is to scatter punches of poisoned vegeta- tion tclover. weeds. etc. moistened with Paris green and waterD here and there in l the field or orchard. Some people rec ommend poisoned bran. too. But. per- sonally. we prefer not to scatter poi soned eatables about the farm. so long as We can erect enough paper fences.
 Three points to remember about cut worms: They prefer sandy soils in which to hide and winter. Persistent cultivation of any soil is unfavorable to them. Pieces of board laid near trees or plants serve as traps for cutworms: lift such pieces each morning and kill the