Bugs in the Corn, Coosa, AL

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Bugs in the Corn - Coosa Co., AL

"It is reported that our corn crop is threatened by a small bug which
gets into the shuck of the forming ear and feeds on the silk near the
end of the ear, preventing the communication of the pollen from the
tassel and hindering the development of the grain.  The ears affected
have the appearance of those grown on a isolated stalk, perhaps
two-thirds of the grains being undeveloped.  A. D. Bentley reported the
matter to this office.  They are in his corn and they were brought to
his attention by George Gothard, for many years a successful corn grower
of this county.  Mr. Gothard nor any of his neighbors never saw the like
before.  Mr. Bentley sent some of the insects to one of the departments
of State for examination but the officer in charge of that department
was absent from the State perhaps visiting his ‘wife’s kin folks.’" (1)

(1) The Chronicle, 23 July 1909, p. 4. Printed in Rockford, Coosa Co.,
AL. Microfilm: Located in the Alabama Archives and History, Montgomery,
AL.