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, Tenn. ; 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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