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Missouri J. Haseman (October 18). "Sals pest wrought hovoc on the corn crop 
throughout quite a bit of the more heavily infested section of the 
State but the f::ll ruins regain hove played their port, apparently, 
in helping to eliminate the pest where abundant. Fall burning 
campaigns have been plinned and will be carried out in the more 
threatening sections of the State but the cold prolonged fall rains 
h:ive been decidedly against the pest and we to hopeful that with 
the carrying out of burning c^rp-igns this fall the situation will 
clear m-;teri~liy for nezct year.' 1 
MAIZE 3ILIBUG ( Sphenophorus maidis Chitt. ) 
3outh '. r; '. Oonradi. ""'. J. Sanders of Zershaw County reports under date 
Carolina of October 1 that this insect is quite widely distributed in his 
county and has done considerable damage to corn." 
EU50PE/K CORE BORER ( Pyrausta nubilalis Hubn. ) 
On October 11 the Federal Horti cultural aoard held a hearing in 
Washington for the purpose of considering changes in the present 
quarantine against the European corn borer; also, for the discussion 
of the newly infested r;rea through Ohio and Michigan, The meeting 
was l?rgely attended by delegates from the Hew England States, New 
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and several other States 
that are vitally interested in the control of this pest. 
Dr. Marlatt, chairman of the board, called on several of the 
government experts who are studying the European corn borer, to de- 
fine the origin, the present distribution, status, etc. Messrs. 
Caffrey and T ' r orthley, who have made a study of its life history and 
control measures, gave interesting talks and outlined what h^d been 
done to date. 
The notice of the hearing sent out by the Federal Horticultural 
"Soard proposed a change in the quarantine which would make the 
quarantine regional rathur than simply including the infested area, 
as it is now operated. It was the consensus of opinion that this 
would work a great hardship on many of the States and in the long 
run would be very costly and injurious. In the case of New England, 
where the infestation is confined chiefly to Massachusetts and 
where the area infested includes only about one-third of the State, 
the proposed quarantine is to include all of the New England States 
as far west as the Connecticut River. It seems that this would 
open a considerable new area to the ravages of the corn borer and 
even when the insect finally reached the Connecticut River there 
would be no means of checking it. Connecticut, New Hampshire, 
and Maine were opposed to this plan, inasmuch as they would be 
obliged, if it went into effect, to establish State '-ma rant ir.es 
agsinst the infested, area. These State officials were very well 
pleased with the present quarantine and its work, and were strongly 
opposed to any change. 
