Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1919 — CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT TO FIGHT CORN BORER PEST. [ARTICLE]

CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT TO FIGHT CORN BORER PEST.

Immediate steps are to be taken by officials of the state conservation department, assisted by the Purdue university .experiment station and the Indiana Farmers’ federation, to prevent the appearance in Indiana of the European corn •borer, a dreaded pest which is causing great loss to crops in eastern states. A. conference was held yesterday by Richard Lieber, director of the conservation department, with Charles G. Woodbury of Purdue university, John Brown, president of the Indiana Farmers* federation, and Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist. As a result Mr. Lieber requested Mr. Wallace, Mr. Woodbury and a representative of the farmers to go to Washington at -ence and consult with the federal authorities. men will then go directly to the statea where the fields are infected and make local inspections. When the experts return to Indiana they will repor tto Mr. Lieber and the conservation department and the university jwill work out ways and means for a campaign to keep the pest out of Indiana.