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field cultivation deep plowing and the removal of all refuse should be 

 attended to ; any infested plot should not be sown with peas again for two 

 or three years. It is not likely that any poison can be successfully applied 

 as the worm buries itself in the pod as soon as it is hatched. 



The Pea Weevil. (Bruchus pisorum) Fig. 40, is to be found every year 

 in many localities. If growers everywhere adopt the simple method of 

 fumigating with bisulphide of carbon as soon as possible after harvesting 

 there would soon be little injury to complain of ; one ounce to one hundred 

 pounds of seed has been found sufficient. All refuse after threshing should 

 be cleaned up and burnt and no weevilly peas should ever be sown. 



Fig. 37. Greasy Cutworm ; (/;) front of head ; (c) moth. 



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 FiQ. 38. Glassy Cutworm. 



Fig 39. Pea moth, larva and infested peas. 



Fig. 40. Pea Weevil. 



Clover-Seed Midge. Many complaints have been received respecting 

 loss caused by this insect. The adult is a two-winged fly which lays its 

 eggs in the flower heads of clover; the maggots, when hatched, burrow 

 into the ovames and feed upon the developing seeds. They become mature 

 at the end of June, descend into the ground and pupate there. A second 

 brood of flies come out when the clover is again in flower and the same 

 course is repeated; in this way both crops are prevented from maturing a 

 large proportion of their seed. The winter is passed by the maggots in 



