Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . I ^1 ?mP. (Courtesy Iowa State College) Fig. 113. Four hills representing ground in corn for the fourth year. Number of cornroot worms taken from each hill, as numbered from left to right is 161,150, 125, and 161 respectively. Note the stubby roots and the large num-ber of corn root worms found in each hill. (Ground in alfalfa five years . before. found to be badly lacerated, many of them having rotted off entirely.! jThe plants were very bac
Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . I ^1 ?mP. (Courtesy Iowa State College) Fig. 113. Four hills representing ground in corn for the fourth year. Number of cornroot worms taken from each hill, as numbered from left to right is 161,150, 125, and 161 respectively. Note the stubby roots and the large num-ber of corn root worms found in each hill. (Ground in alfalfa five years . before. found to be badly lacerated, many of them having rotted off entirely.! jThe plants were very backward in sending forth shoots, resulting inljthe production of ears of inferior size. The plants are seen to be very much dwarfed, the corn-root wormhaving almost completely destroyed the root system; so much so REMEDY—ROTATION OF CROPS. 255 Plants aremore orless baiieo that the plants have made a very weak growth. It could not beexpected that they would produce more than nubbins. The amountof nourishment which the roots have furnished these plants has beennecessarily so small that even a fair sized plant has not been pro-duced. Some of the plants present
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