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WISCONSIN HORTICULTURE 
August, 1919 
The principal food plants are 
sweet corn, field corn, fodder corn, 
celery, beans, potatoes, swiss chard, 
beets, spinach, dahlias, gladiolus, 
chrysanthemum, and several weeds. 
Corn is the favorite. In Europe 
and Asia corn, hemp, and millet 
are the most important economic 
plants attacked and a loss of 50 
percent frequently results. In 
Hungary this insect is known to 
have destroyed one-fourth of the 
entire crop of field coi’n and the in 
jury in some parts of Russia is es- 
timated to be 90 or even 100 per 
cent of the total crop. 
“Look out for new corn borer.” 
There are two generations a year 
in Massachusetts. The winter is 
passed in the larval stage within 
tunnels of the host plant in such 
places as corn-stalks or cobs, and 
the adult moths appear in June. 
About 350 eggs are deposited by 
each female. The young caterpil- 
lars bore into the stalk and ears, 
as many as fifteen having been 
found within a single ear of sweet 
corn. In the infested area in Mas- 
sachusetts the borers have been 
found at the rate of 1 ,050,000 to 
the acre. 
In 1918, before Massachusetts 
was quarantined, Wisconsin pur- 
chased enough seed corn from com- 
panies located in New York and 
the New England States to plant 
30,000 to 50,000 acres. Any of 
this may have come from the in- 
fested region and may have carried 
corn borers in the cob. Wisconsin 
thus forms at present the most 
likely door by which the borer may 
have entered the corn belt. 
One inspector of the state de- 
partment of agriculture is being 
assigned to a survey for the pest 
in this state for the remainder of 
the season. He can scratch the 
surface but will need the help of 
every farmer in the search. Any 
larvae found boring in corn 
should be considered suspicious 
and sent to the State Entomolo- 
gist at the State Capitol for iden- 
tification. 
Horticulturists will often find 
large conspicuously striped cater- 
pillars boring in dahlias and other 
thick-stemmed plants. These are 
known as “the stalk borer” and 
need not cause great alarm, but 
any small gray “worms” not over 
three-fourths of an inch long in 
such plants should be sent in. 
Strenuous attempts to eradicate 
the borer completely from the 
United States are being made by 
the federal department of agricul- 
ture and they will appreciate co- 
operation in finding any new out- 
breaks especially in the Missis- 
sippi valley. 
Mrs. E. L. Roloff, presi- * 
* dent, requests the attend- * 
* ance of every member of * 
* the Women’s Auxiliary at !S 
* Port Atkinson, August 19th # 
* and 20th. * 
Refuses To Go 
My auto, ’tis of thee, 
Short cut to poverty — 
Of thee I chant. 
I blew a pile of dough 
On you two years ago, 
And now you refuse to go, 
Or won’t — or can’t. 
BERRY BOX IS 
Crates, Bushel Boxes 
and Climax Baskets 
As You Like Them 
We manufacture the Ewald Patent 
Folding Berry Boxes of wood veneer 
that give satisfaction. Berry box and 
crate materia] in the K. D. in carload 
lots our specialty. We constantly carry 
in stock 16 quart crates all made up 
ready for use, either for strawberries or 
blueberries. No order too small or too 
large for us to handle. We can ship the 
folding boxes and crates in K. D. from 
Milwaukee. Promptness is essential in 
handling fruit, and we aim to do our 
part well. A large discount for early 
orders. A postal brings our price list. 
Cumberland Fruit Package 
Company 
Dept. D, Cumberland, Wis. 
The Hawks 
Nursery 
Company 
are in a position to 
furnish high grade 
Nursery Stock of all 
kinds and varieties 
suitable to Wiscon- 
sin and other north- 
ern districts. 
Will be glad to fig- 
ure on your wants 
either in large or 
small quantities. 
Wauwatosa, Wis. 
