Bollworm

the caterpillar of the nocturnal motb, Helio this Armiger a. The creature feeds on almost every va riety of vegetable and cultivated crop and is known in each locality ae the name of the plant on which it feeds as the corn-worm, tobacco-worm, cot: ton-worm, etc, Its first choice is cot ton, and then corn, and in the South where both crops — it has prover wery destructive wherever it has been permitted to make headway. There are 4 or 5 broods each year; the July brood attacks corn, the August brood eats the cotton, and the last brood con. tinues the race. It is as the cotton worm that it is called boll-worm, as the young grub eats the unfolded boll or bud of the cotton plant. The general government is making strenuous efforts to kill the pest.