Of the Maggot or Caterpillar injefling Corn in Granaries; the nature 

 of its generation explained, and tine means to prevent its increafe 

 pointed out. 



AVING, as I hope, by my obfervations on the Weevil, convinced 

 mankind, that it is propagated in the ordinary way of generation, I 

 have fince employed myfelf in the examination of that hife6t or mag- 

 got which our bakers and corn dealers name " de JVolf."* 



This creature is a very fmall white maggot, provided with two 

 red pincers, or organs like teeth, placed in the fore part of its head, 

 by which it not only feeds on, and confumes wheat, and other grain, 

 but alfo can perforate or gnaw holes in wood. The common opinion 

 is, that it is produced from corruption, or elfe from what fome call 

 a blight. But, in order to refute this vulgar error, I procured from 

 a Merchant, a box of wheat, in v/hich this infeil abounded, that I 

 might difcover to all, the real manner of its propagation. 



Upon infpe6ling this wheat, I found, that one fmgle maggot had 

 ftuck or faftened together from five, to fix, feven, or even eight, 

 grains of wheat, in one of which itfelf was concealed, and that moft 

 of the other grains were hollowed or fcooped out in the middle ; 

 and it feems to me that tiiis maggot is much more pernicious than 



* Tli.^t is, in Englifli, "the Wolf." This Infc(5t is not much known in England 

 among*the country people, for the Tranllator having procured from an Importer of Corn, 

 ■a fample of Piuffian wheat infeftcd with it, and fliewn it to feveral farmers, tlie appearance 

 feemed new to them, nor could they afiign to the animal any name in Englifh. But to the 

 Dutch, who have always been great importers and exporters of corn, it feems to have been 

 familiar, and the Author's rem.irks on this fubjccl may be well worthy the attention of our 

 Englifli merchants. 



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