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Show I Corn Borer Serious Threat to Midvest Loss Last Year in Six States Totals Millions Last year in six states of the corn I elt the European com borer caused i a loss of some 300 million dollars. 1 In 23 other states, damage ranged from slight to quite severe. : The corn borer appeared in this country in 1917 along the Atlantic seaboard. It has spread steadily , until today it has reached states as The high clearance cart above is dusting corn for corn borer. The corn is about three feet high, correct stage for dusting, according to experts. far west as Kansas and Nebraska and the Dakotas, and south to the Tennessee-Alabama line. Not only is the pest covering more ground each year. It is, in many places working more destructively. destruc-tively. In Iowa, for example, the borer cost each corn farmer last year1 an average of 750 dollars. There is nothing to indicate that the destruction has reached a peak. In fact, unless adequate controls are adopted, the corn belt may find the worse to come. Chemical control must from now on be considered part of the regular production of the crop. |