to allow the corn to mature would be simply planting a breeding
place for the boll-worm.*
 DESTROY WORMY TOMATOES.
 A very imprudent practice by some tomato growers is to pick
the wormy tomatoes and drop them in the field. It is well known
among entomologists that depriving larve of food when they are
about to pupate causes them to pupate earlier, thus this pick-
ing and dropping the tomato hastens the coming of the second
brood. Again, if the worm was not quite ready to pupate it
would simply hunt another vine, and find a tomato on this, and
repeat the work with better appetite for the exercise.
 What shall we do; not pick the wormy ones? Yes, cer-
tainly pick every one of them! Take them to the packing house
and sort them; feed what wormy ones you can and the rest dump
into a deep pit and cover with eighteen inches or two feet of dirt.
Larvoe in pupating dig through five or six inches of dirt; to
make sure that none will dig out, put on plenty.
 Some growers have said that when the wormy tomatoes are
not destroyed there are but few moi e wormy tomatoes at the next
crop around the packing house than there are in other parts of
the field. But it must be remembered that the greatest number
of wormy tomatoes are brought in late in the tomato season.
These worms transform, and by the time the moth comes out the
season is over; then these moths fly to the old tomato field, or
where there are other food plants. There are three or four gen-
erations of worms before the next tomato season opens, and by
that time they are pretty well scattered over your and your
neighbors' fields.
 The tomato plants should all be plowed under and com-
pletely destroyed as soon as the crop has been gathered, as it was
found by actual count last year that in those fields that grew
until June 30, over half the fruit was wormy, where a month
before not one out of ten tomatoes was wormy.
 PHYTOPTOSUS.
 (Phytoptus, Sp.)
 A very peculiar disease of the tomato has been often noticed,
and is so general that it certainly deserves attention. A number
of tomato growers pronounce this the worst disease; some say it is
 *U. S. D. A. Div. Ento., B. 24, p. 32.