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Article XLIII. 



Dire^ions for preferving Threjhed Wheat from Weevils 

 and other Infers , while lodged in Granaries, 



Gentlemen, 



THE prefervation of grain from the ravages 

 of infedls, is an objedt of no inconfiderable 

 confequence to the farmer and corn-merchant. 



It may, I believe, be beft efFedled by timely and 

 frequent fcreening, and ventilation ; as little or no 

 inconvenience will follow corn or malt lodged dry, 

 but what evidently refults from a negled: of thelc 

 precautions. For, whether the obvious damage 

 arife from the weevil, the moth, or the beetle, that 

 damage has ceafed at the time the vermin make 

 their appearance under either of thefe fpecies; they 

 being, when in this laft ftate of exiftence, only 

 propagators of their refpe<fi:ive kinds of vermiculi; 

 which, while they continue in that form, do 

 the mifchief. 



In this lad, or infedt (late, they eat little, their 

 principal bufinefs being to dcpofit their ova^ (eggs) 

 which unerring inftintft prompts them to do where 

 large colledions of grain furnilh food for their fuc- 

 cclTors while in a vermicular ftate. It is therefore 



the 



