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Cut Worms, to Destroy.
By accident I have discovered a mean3 and time by which to destroy the great garden pest, the cut or collard worm. On picking up a piece of board that lay in my walk-way, a few days ago, I discovered several worms. Curiosity led me to turn other boards that lay near. To my great astonishment, when I had turned nearly a dozen, in different parts of the garden, I found that I had killed 76 worms and destroyed scores of eggs, which look like little bits of lint cotton rolled up. The next day I searched the same boards, which I had carefully replaced, and killed 78 worms. The third search I found a small collar-head (small cabbage) that had been cut for cows and left by being overlooked. On examining it, there were found under it and on it 26 worms. My suggestion is to lay boards (pine is the best) about for traps, in the spring, and watch them closely; the saving in young vegetables will be immense. —Southern Plantation.
Remarks. —Let this destruction of these worms commence as early as the spring opens, and you may consider your cucumbers, cabbages, etc., quite
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