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Show The burning apparatus which thej Government is using; against the corn ! borer is the most effective but at the tame time this mast costly method of destroying the pest. It will be on fields with an especially heavy in- j festation or in fields, which because of low wet areas or other physical features, it would be difficult to plow or other wise handle. It is the quick-, est way of destroying the borer and , therefore will also be used under any ! condition where speed is necessary. The burning carriages, capable of generating a heat of 1,400 deg. F., are pulled across the fields, consuming or heating to a fatal degree all stalks and other corn refuse which might harbor borers. |