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The next most important is the boll-worm or ear-worm. Most persons have seen this worm in the ears of sweet corn; ninety ears out of every hundred contain a worm which destroys from one-tenth to one-half the corn. Some years every ear in large regions is infested. In the South the field corn is attacked as badly as the sweet corn, but in the great corn states the injury is much less.
In the kitchen, the two hired men, their faces wet and clean, poured sugar over their lettuce, and talked with their mouths full. "I hear tell of a borer, like an ear-worm, spoiling the corn. . . . But there's none in our corn, so far as I can see." "Never been so much rain since I was born." "A bad year." "Well," said Mrs.
I cannot even print it here in full, but the vital facts can be stated, briefly and in plain figures. Several of these pests work secretly. At husking time the wretched ear-worm that ruins the terminal quarter or fifth of an immense number of ears, is painfully in evidence. The root-worms work insidiously, and the moles and shrews are supposed to attack them and destroy them.
The corn-root worm is charged with causing an annual loss of two per cent of the corn crop, or $20,000,000; the chinch bug another two per cent; the boll or ear-worm two per cent more. The remaining insect pests are charged with two per cent, which makes eight per cent in all, or a total of $80,000,000 lost each year to the American farmer through the ravages of insects.
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