Growing Corn in Spite of the Corn Borer Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Two men in cut cornfield examining corn stalk - close-up of corn borer. “From quarters like this the borer comes out as a moth, to increase a hundred-fold.” Close-up of cut open stalk, borers. “He sometimes finds refuge in brushy fence rows.” Rail fence, young trees and bushes. “He is hiding, too, in the corn refuse lying around your barn yard and feed lots.” Two men walking through corn cobs and stalks in barn yard - man breaking open corn stalk, showing borers. “In this stage the borer is quite defenseless -- now is the time to kill him.” “Destroy those stalks.” Farmer lighting fire in pile of corn stalks. “The spring clean-up catches the borer in the stalks where he can be destroyed.” “Cut ’em off.” Horse-drawn mower cutting corn stalks. “Rake ’em up.” Horse-drawn rake. “And burn ’em.” Farmer setting fire to row of corn stalks. “The farmer’s chief weapon is the plow.” “Knocking down standing stalks helps to make a clean plowing job possible.” Tractor-drawn float in cornfield - tractor-drawn plow. “Wide single-bottom plows will do clean work even in standing corn.” “Plowing should be deep -- 6 inches or more.” Hand holding rule measuring depth of furrow. “Wires are used as trash guards.” Horse-drawn plow in cornfield, “But they are ‘out of luck’ when the surface is clean.” Looking down farrow. “When the stalks are once under -- keep them there.” Tractor-drawn cultipacker. “The cultipacker firms and levels the soil over the stalks.” “A disc set fairly straight will not bring up refuse and makes a good seed bed.” Tractor-drawn disc. “And careful hand picking leaves Mr. Borer with no place to go.” Worker picking up corn stalks in field, placing them in basket. “The work of farmers fighting to save their corn is protected by government clean-up of neglected fields.” [1927]
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