Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1920 — GOVERNMENT OPENS WAR ON CORN BORER [ARTICLE]

GOVERNMENT OPENS WAR ON CORN BORER

The enormous value? of corn, the premier corn crop of the nation, has made, it necessary for the government to take all possible precaution to prevent further infestation from the European “corn borer” which is supposed to have entered the country in shipments of broom corn and has obtained a limited foothold in the eastern part of the country. Large sums are being spent in an effort to control it and a ruling soon is expected from the Federal Horticultural board- as to whether a quarantine shall be imposed against all foreign countries to prevent further entrance of stalks and ears of Indian corn, broom corn or other plants that may bring the borers. It would not apply to shelled corn or to threshed seeds of the other plants. « Majorie* Loughridge went to Lafayette this forenoon.