THE BLACK CORN-WEEVIL 75 



"How about using it in a crib which has wet 

 corn in it and the corn has heated ? " a farmer asked. 

 " Would it cause an explosion? 77 



"In a very tight crib I should be afraid to use it, 

 but in most cribs there would be no danger/ 7 was 

 the entomologist 7 s reply. 



A little man somewhere in the crowd exclaimed : 

 "Bill Crane said that when he was in Fort Worth 

 some of the big millers used this gas, and the people 

 told him that they could taste it in the bread made 

 from the flour of grain so fumigated. 77 



" I have known of such cases before/ 7 the entomolo- 

 gist replied. "People know that it has a foul smell, 

 but it is funny that they never taste it in bread 

 when they don 7 t know the gas was used. 77 



"I have a newspaper clipping here where it speaks 

 of two other things that have been tried for killing 

 weevils. The names are terrible ; I guess I won 7 t 

 try to read them because it is after four o 7 clock 

 now and I shouldn 7 t be able to get through pro- 

 nouncing one of them before sundown/ 7 and the 

 farmer who said this came forward and handed the 

 clipping to the entomologist. 



"Both of these have been experimented with by 



the United States Department of Agriculture ; the 



first l one mentioned is rather expensive, but the 



second 2 seems to give promise. One point strongly 



1 Carbon tetrachloride. 2 Para dichlorobenzine. 



