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grower has a building for the purpose. If properly made it works well. The whole 

 building must be perfectly tight to be of any use. Some use tin, others cement and 

 paint and paper lining, with a double floor with tarred paper between. The pan we 

 use to put the bisulphide of carbon in, is about 3 feet across and only about 4 inches 

 deep. The chemical is thus exposed to more air than it would be in a deep dish, from 

 which it would not evaporate quickly enough to do good service. I put my pan up 

 close to the ceiling above the pease, because the vapour being so much heavier than 

 air it works down through the pease. We fill the building with bags as close as 

 possible up to where the pan hangs, empty the carbon into the pan and get out as 

 quickly as possible and close the door up tight and leave it for forty-eight hours. 

 This must be done in warm weather, as it does not work well when colder than ten 

 degrees above zero. 



The bugs will live well into the second season if left in the pease in a bin or bags. 

 This insect has, I know, been in this country for the last thirty-five years. A sharp, 

 cold winter with a cold wet spring does a great deal of good in thinning out the 

 bugs. They want hot and dry weather to do much harm. 



Many of our farmers sow the late sorts of pease late in the season — say, the first 

 part of June — with good results. I have seen a field ofGoldenYine pease sown early 

 in May. The crop was literally filled with bugs. The neighbour of this farmer 

 planted his in June and his crop had none. I would say, plant as late as possible; 

 but this will not answer for all kinds. The extra early varieties must be put in as 

 early as possible to ensure a paying crop," 



From the above, and what is known of the habits of the Pea Weevil, it is evident 

 that steps should betaken to destroy the beetles infesting seed pease as soon as possible 

 after they are ripe. In this way the insect will be destroj^ed in the larval stage, before 

 it has consumed much of the substance of the pea in which it is passing through its 

 transformations. This is an important matter, because by so much as the pea is 

 reduced in volume, to that extent will the vigour of the plant grown from it be 

 reduced, if even it be not destroyed altogether. 



2. Warm Storage. — Another remedy which has been successfully practised by 

 farmers who save their own seed, is to store the pease in strong, close bags, of either 

 paper or close canvas, which the beetles cannot penetrate, and store them for the 

 winter in a warm room. In this way the perfect insects are developed early and 

 die long before the seeds are required for sowing. 



3. Holding over Seed. — Pease can be held over until the second year after harvest- 

 ing without injury, with the same result as above, but must of course be enclosed in 

 bags or other receptacles to prevent the beetles from escaping. 



4. Salt. — A plan, which, however, I have never tried myself, has been highly 

 recommended by Mr. C. C. Bessey, of Ottawa. He informs me that when farming 

 some years ago in Halton County, Ont., with his father, Mr. J. B, Bessey, it was 

 their custom to thresh as soon as possible and then store the pease in bins with salt. 

 After putting about 4 or 5 inches of pease in the bin a little salt was sprinkled 

 over them ; then more pease and more salt, until the bin was filled. This plan Mr, 

 Bessey claims always killed the weevils when quite small, in the larval stage, with- 

 out in any way injuring the pease. 



The Strawberry Weevil {Anthonomus musculus, Say.) 



Attack. — Just before the flowers of the strawberry expand they are sometimes 

 found to be severed from their stems by a small reddish beetle, which pierces the 

 buds and lays one white egg in each, which afterwards hatches into a white grub 

 and passes all its stages inside the fallen bud, eating out the centre and forming 

 a round cocoon or pupa-case of the frass, and then turns into a beetle within the 

 same bud where the egg was laid. 



For some years entomologists have been trying to discover whether the 

 Strawberry Weevil actually passed through its stages inside the buds which the 

 females sever from the plants, or whether this injury was mere wanton mischief, 



