The Lusk Herald

Destroying Cut Worms

One of the chief evils which the
cultivator of melons and cucumbers
suffers is from the ravages of cut
worms. They work chiefly at night
or in very early morning, coming to
the surface and travelling above
ground until they reach their favo-
rite plant, which they proceed to
cut down at the surface of the ground.
The best way to destroy these pests
is to make small hollows around the
plants it is desired to protect, and
fill them with wheat bran, into
which a due proportion of Paris
green has been mixed. The cut
worm is very fond of wheat bran, and
will continue to eat until the poison
does its work.
This remedy cannot
be used where the fowls have full
range, for it will poison them as well
as the worms.
The cut worm pre-
fers wheat bran to any vegetable.
It may pay to place wheat bran with-
out the poison near the plants, for
the purpose of diverting the atten-
tion of the cut worms and feeding
them on something less expensive
than valuable plants. But it is best
to poison the
pests wherever it is
safe to do so.