Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 January 1948 — NEW DEVICE ROUTS CORN BORER PEST [ARTICLE]

NEW DEVICE ROUTS CORN BORER PEST

Welcome, Minn. A young Welcome war veteran has begun a campaign against a pest that cost Minnesota farmers ah estimated $13,000,000 damage this year from corn borers. Ernest Pollard, former Seabee, has invented a cornstalk cutter that chops the standing stalks into one inch pieces, either killing the borers outright or making it impossible for them to survive the winter because of inadequate shelter. The borer normally hibernates in the stalks during the winter and produces its young in the spring.