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the kernels on nearly every ear, and some ears were 

 not worth hauling into the crib." 



' ' Shucks, ' ' said Fred Hamilt on , ' ' I never saw them in 

 the corn in the field ; you must be mistaken, John." 



"Mistaken?" answered John ; "it seems that you 

 do not know what you are talking about, Fred. 



(After Smith, N. C. Exp. Sta.) 

 FIG. 32. "And some ears were not worth hauling into the crib." 



They were in every field of corn I examined a couple 

 of weeks ago before any of the corn of this section 

 was put into the cribs." 



"It seems to me that I do remember having heard 

 some people say that the weevils were eating their 

 corn in the field," said Fred. 



"You must have," said John, "because everybody 

 has been talking about it." And so they agreed that 



