CORN 



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the worst being the cutworm, the wireworm, the corn- 

 stalk borer, and the corn-worm or cotton-boll worm. 

 For almost all of them late fall plowing, and dressing 



Fig. 52. An ear of early Corn. 



with kainit, one thousand pounds per acre, are advised. 

 Rotation is also of value. Against cutworms use 

 poisoned baits. Against wireworms dig into the ground 

 poisoned sweetened dough; rotation, clover being used 

 for the grass crop, and not to be followed by corn or 

 potatoes. For the corn- 

 worm, burn infested 

 stalks and ears. For the 

 corn bill -bug, plant late. 

 For the corn-stalk borer, 

 burn butts of corn ; burn 

 over any neighboring.^ 

 marsh land ; rotation. 

 For the southern corn 



root wnrm rln not nlant Figr " 53 ' Types of Corn ' A ' Sweet 

 root-worm do not plant Corn B p op - C orn. 



