The Clover Hay Worm

Clarence M. Weed, of the Ohio station, calla attention to the Email brown worms thatoften infest clover hay that has been standing in the mow or Btack for some time. These worms web the sterns and leaves together and feed npon them. This ia the clover hay worm. The adult is a very pretty little purplo and golden moth which deposita eggs npon such clover hay as it has access to. The eggs soon hatch into small brown worms that become f uil grown in a few weeks. They then spin silken cocoons, within which they change to crysalis, to emerge soon af ter in adult mot lis. There are two or more broods each season. It will readily be seen that these insect3 are more likely to prove tronblesome when oíd hay Í3 left over from season to season for them to breed in. Consequently, hay mows shonld be thoroughly cleaned out each summer and new stacks shonld not be put on old foundations until all the leavings of the previous season are removed. Hay that is thickly infested by the worms should beburned.