﻿THE SOUTHERN CORN ROOT WORM, OR BUDWORM. 11 



included. It would seem, therefore, that there might be a possibility 

 of preventing much of the loss to corn growers in that section of the 

 country by planting corn at a date that would bring the young plants 

 above ground at a time after most of the eggs had been deposited, 

 and not so late as to invite attack from the second generation, which 

 is evidently abroad in the fields in late June and early July in north- 

 ern Georgia and in July in northern Indiana. 



Unfortunately heretofore the bureau has had neither the funds nor 

 the men to carry out an extended investigation of this insect through- 

 out its range of destruction. Now, with field laboratories at Colum- 

 bia, S. C. ; Nashville, Temi. ; Greenwood, Miss.; Brownsville, -Tex. ; 

 and a temporary field station at Lakeland, Fla. — all equipped for this 

 sort of work and in the hands of experienced men — we hope, with 

 the cooperation of farmers and planters, to learn definitely whether 

 it is not possible through practical measures to prevent the greater 

 part of these ravages, and save or greatly reduce the losses caused by 

 the budworm. 



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WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1913 



