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devised. In another chapter I have alluded to the very 

 successful bi-sulphide of carbon treatment practised in 

 the larger granaries and dried fruit stores, in the United 

 States and elsewhere. 



This insect is another of the curses introduced into 

 the Commonwealth, and emphasizes the necessity for 

 careful examination at the port of entry and the 

 adoption of stringent measures. It is hardly necessary 

 to point out to my readers the importance of the great 

 cereal and dried fruit industries in Victoria, and this 

 must be my excuse for the strong wording of the advice 

 here tendered. In the United States the losses occasioned 

 by this insect have been enormous, but by adopting sensible 

 precautions the losses of former years have now been 

 considerably lessened. 



