Show PLOWING TO CONTROL PESTS remedies Rem edles for effective check must be applied during fall and winter seasons after tho ilia corn root louse erub ind and wireworm have attacked the cornfield it will be too lato late for or effective control measures rome dies for these pests must be applied during fall and winter these insects feed below ground and are arc most effectively ly controlled by fall or winter plowing clean culture and crop rotation the ro root t louse winters cis as tho the egg eg in the nests of the small corti cornfield ficia ant uy by winter plowing these cheso ant nests are broken up and tho lie ants na as well bell its as ilia louse bouc eggs are destroyed the eggs agga of uie the northern are arc deposited by the beetle during fall in cornfields und tind since ilia grub on hatching the ilia following follow ing spring will teed feed only on oil tile the roots of corn apparently crop rotation la Is entirely effective some of the lie a and require two or three years to mature they winter in the soll abe re winter plowing will destroy many they breed largely in sod eod therefore if a field of sod hod Is to be used for corn in tho ilia spring plow it in late fall it if possible should dry weather permit before freezing weather Is over winter plowing will eliminate minato ll a great many of the insects which ordinarily attack corn in the spring |