By I. H. Orcutt and J. M. Al-drich. Pp. 6. Illustrated. Extensive studies of cutworms have been inaugurated in South Dakota, where these pests appear to be very abundant. The present bulletin is largely a report of progress. Of remedies, those which appear to give most promise are watering the plants regularly in the evening for the double purpose of making plants vigorous and lessening the activity of the worms, covering the ground with loose straw and then burning it off, starving out the worms, and hand-picking. Tin protectors are also efficient. "For use in the Horticultural Department, we had tins made at a tin-shop. They are two and a-half by eight inches in size, with a narrow lap at each end, forming a tube when the ends are bent round and hooked together. This is a perfect protector if properly applied. It should be inserted in the ground but slightly. In our experience, the worms did not crawl under if the tube barely reached below the surface. Lumps close outside sometimes enabled worms to climb over, so care had to be taken to leave the earth smooth near the tube. The cost of the tins was seventy-five cents per hundred.

They promise to be very durable, • as they are required in the field less then two months and are then taken up and put under cover until the next year. If work is counted at its usual value, they are more economical than old fruit cans".