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of five rows for every twenty-five of cotton to be planted in corn. At 
the earliest possible time plant one row of this with an early maturing 
sweet corn. It should not be drilled in too thickly, since only a mini- 
mum number of plants and ears is desired. During the silking period 
of this corn frequent careful examinations must be made as to the num- 
ber of small white or brownish banded eggs, hardly larger than a pin 
head, found upon them, As soon as no more fresh white eggs are 
found each morning, the silks and ends of the ears should be cutaway 
and fed or burned in order to destroy the young worms and the eggs. 
A few eggs may be on the leaves of the plants, and since no more 
growth is to be made, they also should be cut and taken from the field. 
There is no reasonable objection to this method of handling the first 
planting, since the natural enemies are not yet numerous and the egg 
parasites appear iu greater numbers during the egg-laying period of 
the next brood. The next planting should be three rows of Dent corn, 
drilled in late enough to bring the silking period about the first of 
July or a little later. These rows catch immense numbers of eggs and 
larva?, but should be left to mature in order that the natural enemies 
which parasitize the eggs and prey upon the larvae may not be de- 
stroyed. Furthermore, the cannibalism previously discussed, which 
occurs in this corn under such crowded conditions, reduces the number 
of worms reaching maturity to a minimum, and these can well be al- 
lowed to escape if the natural enemies be saved thereby. To trap 
these escaped individuals, the fifth and last row of the vacant strips 
should be planted to sweet corn at a time calculated to make it reach 
full silk about August 1st, when the moths begin issuing again. This 
expedient allows the planter to save the second planting as a crop. 
The corn produced in this way is large enough in quantity to pay for 
the expense of cultivation and management and the sacrifice made in 
cropping the five rows with corn instead of cotton. However, it must 
be understood that this is immaterial so long as protection is afforded 
to the surrounding cotton. The last row of sweet corn should be care- 
fully watched. If it is found that a great many eggs are parasitized, 
a fact which is indicated by their uniform grayish or blackish color, 
it may be as well to allow it to mature as before and thus save 
the parasites. If this condition is not found, the corn should be cut 
and taken from the fields as soon as it shall appear that no more eggs 
are being deposited. 
If the first two plantings are well managed, the number of the earlier 
broods will be so reduced that the August brood will not be capable of 
inflicting great injury, and in less infested regions the third planting- 
may even become superfluous. 
It is not necessary or advisable to crop the entire plantation with 
corn and cotton as recommended. The end will be attained if five-acre 
strips of alternate corn and cotton be planted for every fifty acres of 
