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best, cutting and shredding the com 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 com stalk to become mixed with manure unless 

 the latter is composted or handled so it will heat. 



Com fields and adjacent areas should be kept free from weeds and 

 if there be nearby weedy areas they should be biimed over if possible 

 dvu-ing the fall or early spring. Crops particularly likely to carry 

 the borer, such as celery, beets, dahlias etc., should not be grown 

 near com because considerable infestation is due to the borers desert- 

 ing the com 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 com for the purpose of attract- 

 ing the moths and in case a serious infestation results, destroy the 

 insects by feeding the com 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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