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SOME SOI IN INDIAN INSECTS, ETC. 



CH VP. XI. 



oi this kind a cultivator may easily rid his fields oi flying pests 

 such as Rice-bug, Blister Beetles and Rose-chafers, whilst it may 



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also be used fur grasshoppers. The insects caught in the net, by 

 sweeping it unit the crop, may be killed simplj by crushing them 

 by hand or under loot or with a flat Stone or the contents of the net 

 may be emptied into a vessel containing water with a little oil 

 oil top. 



I i,,. i net (From Madras Agricultural Calendar I'M; 14.) 



Foi grasshoppers a bag-net is used as this enables the whole 

 surface ol an affected area to be worked over and practically all 

 the grasshoppers to be swept up in the bag. The bag-net is simply 

 a lartfe bag of cloth about four feet wide and two feet across at the 

 mouth and live or six feet deep and tapering to a point behind. 



