. The A B C of corn culture. Corn. stubs. The stalk of corn is thus deprived of moisture and nourishment and after a rain when the ground is soft, and espe- cially with a heavy wind, the corn often goes down badly, par- ticularly in those places most affected. Generally the worm will have reached its full size the latter part of July and first of August, when it pupates and in a few days comes out as a small beetle, light or yellowish green color at first, but soon turns to a grass-green color. It distributes itself throughout the field and migrates to other fields of corn. Fig. 44—This field
. The A B C of corn culture. Corn. stubs. The stalk of corn is thus deprived of moisture and nourishment and after a rain when the ground is soft, and espe- cially with a heavy wind, the corn often goes down badly, par- ticularly in those places most affected. Generally the worm will have reached its full size the latter part of July and first of August, when it pupates and in a few days comes out as a small beetle, light or yellowish green color at first, but soon turns to a grass-green color. It distributes itself throughout the field and migrates to other fields of corn. Fig. 44—This field has been in pastuie for several years, and is badly infected with the white grub. The hogs have torn the sod up completely, rooting for grubs and other insects. Fields left down to pastuie or meadow for a number of years are almost certain to become badly infected with grubs, wire worms, cut worms, bill bugs, etc., and, conse- quently, when this ground is finally put in corn the first and second ctops are both seri- ously injured, and if continued in corn the third and fourth crops will be even more seriously damaged by the corn root worm. feeding on the silks, and the corn at the tips of the ears, especially where the husks have been broken open and the corn injured by the birds, ear worms, etc. So far as known in the North, the corn root worm works only on the roots of corn, and it is almost certain that the eggs are always laid in the corn field. Several hundred fields of corn were examined during this and last summer, but in no case did I find any damage from the root worm where corn followed some other crop, as pasture, —46—. 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 Holden, P. G. (Perry Greeley), 1865-1959. Springfield, O. , The Simmons publishing co.
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