THE BLACK CORN-WEEVIL 



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"It puzzles me/' Sam Dixon interrupted, "how 

 these little mischief-makers can eat the inside of 

 the seed, and yet when I plant it 

 most of the seed comes up. It 

 would seem that they would kill 



the germ/ ' 



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ies, yo et, 



ton added, "I have noticed that 

 weevily seed will come up pretty well, but it does 

 not make a stand of corn like sound seed." 



"That is what I say/' Bill Green spoke up. "I 

 have found that out, and I will not plant any more 

 corn that has weevils in it." 



(4fler Hinds, Ala. Exp. Sta.) 

 FIG. 38. " From this 



pupa the full . grown 

 weevil comes." 



FIG. 39. "Weevily seed will not do as well as clean seed." 



"Very often the weevils will not hurt the germ," 

 said the entomologist, "but the gentlemen are right 



