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stored must be thoroughly cleaned, white-washed or tarred 

 in the dry season, and then the grain stored and kept well 

 covered up. The surroundings of the godown should be 

 also clean, for the weevils crawl out of old stray and re- 

 jected grain and attack the new grain stored in the godown. 

 The grain should be spread out very thin in the hot sun, if 

 weevils are subsequently noticed in it ; but under ordinary 

 circumstances weevils can be only kept down by cleanliness 

 and care, but not altogether prevented. In jdlds tarred in- 

 side and out and kept hermetically sealed up in the dry 

 season after storing the grain, there is almost no fear of loss 

 from weevils. But Carbon bisulphide gives the most absolute 

 protection. In shops and godowns where such arrangements 

 are not feasible, a mixture of lime and crude carbonate of 

 lead (Sapheda) is used, but the use of this mixture should be 

 deprecated. 



1.234. Paddy is seldom attacked by this weevil and hard 

 wheats are not so subject to its attack as soft wheats. 

 The weevils are not able to penetrate a thick layer of 

 chopped straw or of dry neem leaves. Hence, bags of grain 

 stored in open vats first cleaned and tarred inside, and 

 covered up simply with chopped straw or dry neem leaves, 

 are found nearly entirely free from weevils. 



1.235. Miss Ormerod recommends " the plan of trapping 

 by setting vessels of water " which attract the beetles in 

 great numbers from the grain. 



1,236. At Demarara they attract ants into rice godowns 

 with sugar, and then the ants attack the weevils. 



1,237. The plan adopted in this country for protecting 

 cobs of maize kept for seed, is to hang them up in bunches 

 at the end of Bamboos and keep them exposed to light and 

 air and smoke inside ordinary dwelling houses. Indeed the 

 weevils are more destructive in town godowns than in villages, 

 where sweeping and leping are practised daily, making quiet 

 inroads of pests somewhat more difficult. 



