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On the Control of Cereal-arid Forage 

 Crop Pests 



Copyright, 1920, by Fred Reinlein, 1751 Derby Street, 

 Portland, Oregon. 



Circular No. 157 _ \ */ February 4, 1920 



IN AS much as the European corn borer has become well 

 established in certain parts of Massachusetts and New 

 York, and the U. S. Department of Agriculture is trying 

 to arouse the public to the need of drastic action towards 

 "control and extermination" of this serious pest, and at the 

 same time has virtually no other means of "control and ex- 

 termination" to offer than destruction of the very large 

 number of food plants this pest inhabits during its period of 

 rest, this is a good time to throw a little light on how the 

 Bureau of Entomology proposes to control certain other im- 

 portant insect pests, especially such as affect cereal-and forage 

 crops, and also on means of control to accomplished this same 

 purpose, as had been described by me during the past 6 years. 

 A system of control that is claimed by me to effectively 

 control the European corn borer has recently been described 

 by me in my Circular No. 156, and the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, who for the past 6 years has done nothing to make 

 the U. S. Entomologist do his duty in this matter admit 

 that I am right, or show where I am wrong was once more 

 asked to make the little man attend to his job. 



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