Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . Lydla Moore Hart PLATE II. Fig. l—A/yoc/trous denticollis. Fig. 2-The Corn Wirkworm, Melanotm —Click Beetles,adults of other Corn Wireworms; 3 Drasteriiis elegans: 4 A^noiesmanciis/ j A. piibescens. COURTESY OF PROFESSOR S. A. FORBES, ILLINOIS STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. WIRE WORM. 237 impression on the appearance of the grass lands. However, when thegrafs land is broken up and the comparative number of plants whichthe field contai
Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . Lydla Moore Hart PLATE II. Fig. l—A/yoc/trous denticollis. Fig. 2-The Corn Wirkworm, Melanotm —Click Beetles,adults of other Corn Wireworms; 3 Drasteriiis elegans: 4 A^noiesmanciis/ j A. piibescens. COURTESY OF PROFESSOR S. A. FORBES, ILLINOIS STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. WIRE WORM. 237 impression on the appearance of the grass lands. However, when thegrafs land is broken up and the comparative number of plants whichthe field contains is few, as with corn, the wire worms have to con-centrate their labors more on the individual plants, and then it isthat their presence is felt, the damage being done not only to thecorn plants, but not uncommonly the seed is attacked and destroyedbefore the young plant can present itself. The wire worm attacks thecorn kernel either before or after it has sprouted and not infrequentlywill a kernel be found into which the wire worm has made an en-trance. The roots of the plant are seriously injured, the smallerroots are often eaten away, whi
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