The Smoky Hill And Republican Union

Cut Worm And Corn Grub Killer.

-Dr Asa Fitch, the eminent entomologist of the N. Y. State Agricultural Society, says: "I doubt not you have noticed in plowed fields a large black beetle with most brilliant golden dots placed in rows on its back. It is the Calosoma calidum of entomologists, and its eggs produce the corn grub killer. It is a most inveterate foe of the cut worm, grasping the worm in its strong jaws, and in spite of its violent writhing and struggling securely holding it, and when it finds these worms in plenty, it gorges and surfeits itself upon them, till it is so glutted and distended as to be scarcely able to stir-for it never knows how to let a cut worm alone when it meets with one. It is continually hunting these worms, feeding on nothing else if it can obtain them. Both it and the golden dotted beetle which produces it, therefore, should never be harmed."