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nut, some one or more of the species of root web-worms are 
doubtless at work in the field. 
11. The cutting of the young corn at or below the surface of 
the ground is an injury too well known as the work of the cut¬ 
worms to require more than bare mention here. 
12. The appearance in the side of the stalk of a hole about 
the size of a straw, with a brown moist powder exuding, is 
evidence of the presence of the stalk-borer , an insect which often 
does a great and practically irremediable damage to young corn 
m early spring, especially in low grounds, by burrowing the 
stalk, pushing more or less of its excrement out at the mouth 
of its burrow. 
1*3. A similar, equally evident burrowing of the ear, the ex¬ 
crement from which escapes by a hole through the green husks 
or becomes mixed through the silks at the'tip of the ear, be¬ 
trays the presence of the corn worm already mentioned under 8. 
11. The eating away of the blade of the leaf in late summer 
and autumn so as to make large irregular holes, which may 
multiply and increase in size until they finally leave only the 
stripped midrib and the bare stalk—the injury being commonly 
vei v much worst along the edges of the field—is commonly due 
to grasshoppers. 
the corn crib or granary the commonest serious mis- 
cmei m the peppering of the kernel with little round holes, each 
the diameter of the head of a pin, the first suspicion of which will 
frequently be aroused by the appearance of fine particles of 
meal sifting down somewhere within sight. The insect most 
likely to be responsible for this mischief is the corn moth; but 
various weevil species may also be involved. 
