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locality, the practice of packing green corn in baskets holding five- 
eighths of a bushel (known as five-eighths baskets) is almost universal. 
The usual method is to cut or pull the ears in the field, pile them in a 
shaded place nearby, and then pack them in baskets to await ship¬ 
ment. Occasionally a grower has a packing shed or house in which 
the final packing is done. The inspection was made after the ears 
were piled and before packing. The inspector examined each ear, and 
in the case of suspicious appearing ears, the husk was torn down. It 
was soon learned that normal ears, on which the husk was perfectly 
tight and the silk uninjured in any way, offered no concealment for the 
insect; on the other hand, ears with a loose husk, or in which the husk 
was eaten by other insects (especially by ear worm), or in which the 
silk was eaten or missing, or ears in which the husk did not entirely 
cover the tip of the cob, or ears deformed by some disease or other 
cause, were almost invariably the ones harboring the beetle. Occa¬ 
sionally a beetle was found on the outside of the husk or silk, but usu¬ 
ally any of the insects which may have been in such exposed places had 
been knocked off in the handling of the ears. It was noticeable that 
the infested ears were usually found early in the morning; apparently 
the beetles left their shelter as the air became warmer. 
During the course of the season, something over 23,000 baskets of 
corn were examined, in which a total of seventy-seven (77) beetles 
were found, in practically every case the beetle or beetles being found 
beneath the husk. The corn ear worm was abundant during the past 
season, especially on the earlier varieties of green corn, and often their 
feeding places on the corn furnished hiding places for the beetles. 
In the opinion of those engaged in the green Japanese beetle proj¬ 
ect, the quarantine has been abundantly justified, in the finding of 
these seventy-seven beetles which would otherwise have escaped from 
the infested territory. While apparently this number is small in com¬ 
parison with the number of baskets of corn examined, these relatively 
few beetles assume a much greater importance when the amazingly 
rapid rate of increase of which this species is capable, is considered. 
It should also be noted that in every case in which the shipments were 
found to be infested, the corn was destined for the Philadelphia market, 
from there perhaps to be scattered in small lots to points further 
removed from the present infestation. 
All shipments of green corn made via railroad or mail were also 
inspected and certified. For such shipments, special forms for cer¬ 
tification were required. 
Throughout the season, as opportunity offered, other farm products 
were examined, in order to determine to what extent they might serve 
as means of dispersing the insect. The methods in common use for 
