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England, and continue among the wheat all 

 the summer. This insect must injure all 

 wheat-crops where it is : but it never de- 

 stroys wheat on rich land. It is to be dis- 

 covered by the wheat falling down when in 

 the ear, like what are termed in England 

 shaffled crops. 



There is a moth which gets into the 

 wheat, and destroys it in the stack or mow 

 after it has been harvested. Likewise a 

 worm in granaries that quickly consumes 

 large quantities : it is the same as that 

 which gets into the bread on ship-board. 

 There are abundance of weevils* 



In white or garden-peas, there is a 

 worm that eats a large hole through every 

 pea, or nearly : and this is in embryo when 

 the pea is green ; as I bottled some, and 

 corked them up , but in the spring there 

 was a great number of the flies in the bottle, 

 and the peas were all eaten through: there- 

 fore they are not to be avoided. These 

 peas are, in consequence, not pleasant to 

 use for the table. I suspect such numerous 



