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should be bagged just as early as possible after being 

 cured and should be wrapped with great care. The 

 wrapping cannot be made too tight, for the least opening 

 or crack will allow the entrance of the beetle to deposit 

 its eggs. 



If a ham or similar article of food should become in- 

 fested with the grubs, the part containing them should 

 be cut away and destroyed by burning or otherwise, and 

 the remaining part of the meat treated with a dilute 

 solution of carbolic acid. 



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1861. HORN, GEORGE H. Notes on the habits of some coleopter- 

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