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VERY CORN GROWER is familiar with the corn
earworm, but few realize the full extent of the
loss it occasions to the field-corn crop of this country.
Conservatively estimated, this loss amounts annually
to $40,000,000.
Each grower of corn, with little extra cost or effort,
may reduce his loss from earworm ravages by at
least one-half if he will select a variety of corn well
suited to his local conditions, but having a long,
tight husk, and will plant this variety so as to have
it silk at the most favorable time-that is, when the
moths of the earworm are least abundant.
This bulletin describes the different stages of the
insect, and shows how it damages corn, how it is
partly kept in check by its own habits and its natural
enemies, and how a knowledge of its life history will
aid the corn grower in protecting his crop.II
Washington, D. C. January, 1923
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Phillips, W. J. (William Jeter), 1879- & King, Kenneth M. (Kenneth Marion), 1896-. The Corn Earworm: Its Ravages on Field Corn and Suggestions for Control., book, January 1923; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6307/m1/2/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.