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Show Corn Borer The corn borer Is one of the most serious pests of the farm. It enters the cornstalk at the ground and operates op-erates through the length of the stalk and ultimately the corn Is destroyed. de-stroyed. A. Eussell Mnrston, entomologist ento-mologist at the Michigan State college col-lege corn borer experiment station, has developed a strain of corn which the borer refuses to attack. Why, Marston cannot tell. There Is something some-thing In it the borer does not like; he knows the grain intuitively, and lets It alone. The resistant strain that has been developed Is a cross between the maize abargo, a South American strain the borer will not attack, and a commercially productive produc-tive North American strain. |