Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-01-29 | Page 4 | Corn Borer is at Work

CORN BORER IS AT WORK low How it got here no one knoWs knoW's It came camo from Europe and 1917 i ii i l given ten as s the tho date ot or its ap appearance Its visit Is costing the l 1 1 States millions ot or dollars Iii I Ii is the European corn borer horer A farmer down in the Illinois corn II 1 I It was waa looking around In his hla f III ill n 1 day when ho he discovered SI n t 6 nv n brown worm Ho lie took it It ito 10 o the I county farm Carm bureau The adviser told him ita It a a the corn coin borer and gave the ill II to 0 O the Ilie world lie borer up tip In Massachusetts In 1917 It IL has und mid spread un til now Its domain Is la a regIon or of miles It has moved In all directions with the Iho lie corn coin IC conditions are to its liking It Itcan itcan Itcan can destroy an entire crop ot or corn In western New York many sweet corn growers lost their crops for the last two to seasons others took losses of ot 50 0 per pet c cent nt 1 0 Now with Indiana and aull IllinoIs menaced serious possibilities lie Ill I just ahead tor for the national corn crop I i In I he central I states corn torn belt belthe the annual production of or corn coin suns luns to two and three billions or of dollars It H tho the borer gets to play PlOY playing log ing with this crop food tood prices DlA flay go to 0 o unheard ot or figures Experts have haro rocked racked their brains Congress has s 10 10 to war on the pest pc t No No dusts or sprays spra's reach roach the Ibo nil evil invader because It burrows too deep There Thero has even been some sorn dIscussIon ot or establishing nation wide cornIces zones to fight th the worm somewhat after the way y rangers fight a forest fire tire The grim sIege goes on Here I an enemy not as big blK as a II mans man's tile little finger and it Is eating the cash right out ot of his Ills wallet but buthe buthe buthe he cant can't pin it down Science must find rind the way