. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. 236 CORN attacked. This commonly occurs below the opening at which it en- tered. The moth is rather mouse colored and flies by night. Prevention and Remedy. AVhen a corn plant is attacked by a stalk borer, there is no remedy that can be applied that will success- fully combat the intruder without doing injury to the plant itself. The place of eradication is where the larvae first appear, namely, in grassy places. Here they may
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. 236 CORN attacked. This commonly occurs below the opening at which it en- tered. The moth is rather mouse colored and flies by night. Prevention and Remedy. AVhen a corn plant is attacked by a stalk borer, there is no remedy that can be applied that will success- fully combat the intruder without doing injury to the plant itself. The place of eradication is where the larvae first appear, namely, in grassy places. Here they may be discovered by the tops of the grass attacked turning whitish in color and dying. This grass should be mowed immediately and burned or fed to stock. It is generally the outer borders of the corn fields that are injured by the stalk borer. The damage done to the corn fields is limited. Whole fields are not attacked by the stalk borer as in the case of the other corn pests, al- though it is known to have destroyed 15 acres at Elmira, Illinois in a single season. In Greene County, Iowa, in 1908, a 3 acre pier? of corn was ruined by the ravages of this Stalk-borer (llydroccia nitela) a, adult; b, half-grown larva; c, mature larva in burrow; d, side of one of its segments; b, pupa. All slightly enlarged. THE NORTHERN CORN ROOT WORM.'!= This little larva, or worm, is about two-fifths of an inch long, and approaches a pin in thickness. It is white, with the exception of its head, the top of the first segment, and a spot on the last segment, which are of a brown- ish color. ,y E. p. *ThiB investigation carried Bn\lJT9ftB. Humbert under the personal supervision of M. Ij,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bowman, Melville Le Roy, 1881-. Waterloo, Ia. , Sold by Waterloo publishing co.
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