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best, cutting and shredding the corn stalks and even salting them 
promote their consumption by cattle. Where other treatment is 
impossible, the stalks should be composted or burned provided the 
expense is not out of proportion to the benefits secured. If possible 
do not allow pieces of corn stalk to become mixed with manure unless 
the latter is composted or handled so it will heat. 
Corn fields and adjacent areas should be kept free from weeds and 
if there be nearby weedy areas they should be burned over if possible 
during the fall or early spring. Crops particularly likely to carry 
the borer, such as celery, beets, dahlias etc., should not be grown 
near corn because considerable infestation is due to the borers desert- 
ing the corn for one reason or another and crawling, in some cases 
20 or 30 feet, before entering another plant. The danger of spread 
through commercial agencies can be materially lessened by observing 
a few precautions. 
Plant small areas of very early sweet corn for the purpose of attract- 
ing the moths and in case a serious infestation results, destroy the 
insects by feeding the corn or in some other manner. The main 
crop should be planted a little later so as to escape the borers in large 
measure. 
It is advisable to keep posted regarding both federal and state 
quarantines, otherwise there may be unexpected difficulties in dis- 
posing of crops grown in the infested areas, 
Prevention of spread. Persons living in infested areas should be 
very careful not to send out any materials that might possibly contain 
living caterpillars of this pest. Attention is called in this connection 
to the quarantine previously cited. Residents of uninfested regions 
should be equally careful not to accept infested material from sections 
where this pest occurs. It is much easier to exclude the insect than 
to control it after it has become established. 
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