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 manure has been exposed. Instinct leads the moth or fly to deposit its
 eggs in these, and when placed in bed or field the eggs are hatched and
 we have the worm. This remedy will apply to the field as well as the
 bed. This worm appears sometimes the day after transplanting.
 BUD WORM.
 The bud worm is very small and the fly or moth lays its eggs in the
 bud of the growing plant. When these buds put out the leaf is badly
 cut or full of holes, rendering it useless for wrappers and only fit for
 fillers.
 In the seed bed the remedy should be applied as soon as the plant
 has attained about two inches. In the field the application should be
 made every few days and to the growing bud. If, alter an application,
 a good shower of rain falls, it will be wise to go over the bed or field, as
 the rain may wash the remedy off.
 The same mixture for cut worms is the remedy for the bud worm,
 and it can be used by dusting the bud of the plant.
 THE HORN WORM
 does not trouble the bed but assails the plant in the field when it is
 well grown. Its appearance is indicated by its eggs being laid on the
 under side of the leaf. It is well to keep a sharp lookout for them
 about May. These must be picked off by hand. Chickens, guineas
 and turkeys, if they have the run of the field feed largely on this worm
 and do not damage plant. Wasps, dirt-daubers, hornets, yellow-jackets
 and all similar insects are great feeders on the worms which assail
 tobacco and should never be killed. They are the farmer's friends and
 should be protected. The small boy oughl to be taught that the wasp,
 the hornet and the yellow-jacket should never have their nests de-
 stroyed. It would be economy where farmers have no clay around
 their wells or hor-e troughs to haul it there and thus furnish the dirt-
 dauber the means of building his house, and thus encourage it to make
 its home with him even if he did not plant tobacco. The same is true
 of the other friendly insects; encourage and protect them so that they
 may multiply, for they are of great value to the farmer.
 TOBACCO LAND
should be either sandy or that which has a sub-soil of clay one foot or
more below the surface. Where the clay is on the surface it is not re-
garded as good tobacco land. Still there is land designated as clay
which has a preponderance of sand in it. Such land I would not hesi-
tate to plant tobacco in. As a rule any land which will bring a fair
crop of corn or cotton, whether they be high lands or low, experience
demonstrates, are good tobacco land in Florida, provided the high land
is not springy, or the low too wet, both of which have made good
tobacco the past season when properly drained.
 Low or flat lands should be broken up and then bedded when ready
for fertilizer. The rows should run in the direction of the natural
drainage. NOTE.-"Sandy lands" is used as the common term in Flor-
idato designate the character of our soils. All soils which are not clay,
or largely mixed with clay, are called generally "sandy lands."
 TO PREPARE LAND FOR CULTIVATION.
 The farmer should begin early. The first of January is late enough
to prepare land for a tobacco crop. If weedy and grassy a two-horse
plow should be used to turn under. If before breaking up, a two-horse
cut-away harrow is run both ways over the field it will be of very great
advantage. After breaking up, a cut-away, or a smoothing, or sharp