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PEAS. 



recurrence of attack wliicli obviously could not fail to be of 

 Bervice. 



Prevention and Eemedies. — In gardens where maggot- 

 attack is noticeable in the pods, the Pea-haulm should be 

 cleared away directly the crop is gathered, so that all stray 

 pods (which are very likely to be infested) may be cleared off 

 the ground before the maggot can go down into it. This 

 haulm should be carefully destroyed at once ; the safest way 

 is to burn it, and it would be a very good plan to lay the 

 haulm and any other combustible rubbish at hand along the 

 rows where the infested Peas stood, and burn it there, so as 

 to get rid at once of all grubs remaining in the pods or quite 

 near the surface of the ground. 



For field treatment, as the haulm could not well be spared, 

 it would be desirable, if a Pea-growing district was infested, 

 to plough deeply, so as to bury the chrysalids well down during 

 the winter ; or to skim the surface lightly, so as to throw them 

 open to attack of birds. But commonly the regular rotation 

 of crops might be expected to prevent this infestation getting 

 ahead. 



In garden treatment it might be worth while to watch 

 whether the little grey moth infested the Pea-plants during 

 flowering time, especially in the evening, and in case they were 

 noticeable in any great numbers it might make a difference in 

 the amount of egg-laying to dust the plants with any powder 

 dressing as soot, &c., which might be obnoxious to the moths, 

 but would not do harm to the leafage or blossoms. 



Pea and Clover Weevils. 



Sitones lincatus, Linn, (and other species) 



1 and 2, S. crinitus ; 3 nnd I, ,S'. linentiis, nat. size and mag.; 5, leaf notched 



by Weevils. 



