Losses to corn, what to look for and where to find it . sponsible for this crop faihire. The field was only partly infested by the worms. Note quality of i)lants where the worm has not molested the crop. The entire field was planted the same day. variety is slightly different. The depredations of the cornroot worms are very similar to, and easily confused with,hail damage. Their presence in a field is usually indicated by a with-ering of the young plants, the failure to produce well-developed ears, or a general retarding of the growth with-out visible cause. A search among the roots of such st
Losses to corn, what to look for and where to find it . sponsible for this crop faihire. The field was only partly infested by the worms. Note quality of i)lants where the worm has not molested the crop. The entire field was planted the same day. variety is slightly different. The depredations of the cornroot worms are very similar to, and easily confused with,hail damage. Their presence in a field is usually indicated by a with-ering of the young plants, the failure to produce well-developed ears, or a general retarding of the growth with-out visible cause. A search among the roots of such stalksmay bring to notice the tiny root worms. The root worms themselves are small, slender whitegrubs, about half an inch long when they are full stalks of corn may be pulled out easily and willbreak off at the place where the root worms are at work, 22 leaving the greater part of the roots in the soil. Frequentlyinfested stalks are blown to the ground by wind, the rootsystem having been so cut off that the stalks cannot standthe THE CORN ROOT the worm at work in corn root. (Enlarged.)
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