Download or read book The European Corn Borer, How to Control It (Classic Reprint) written by United States Department Of Agriculture and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The European Corn Borer, How to Control It The European corn borer 1 is one of the most destructive pests of corn. From 1950 to 1961 it caused an average annual loss of more than 107 million bushels of field corn alone. Since it was discovered in Massachusetts in 1917, it has spread westward and southward over a large part of the important corn acreage east of the Rocky Moun tains (fig. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.