weevil" in ORAIN". 



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broods is entirely dependent npon 

 the latitude and weather condi- 

 tions; in the South, where they 

 can breed continuously, there 

 being as many as eight in a j^ear. 



Corn is frequently attacked, but 

 not until it is ripe and husked, 

 and then but rarely when husked 

 in October and November and 

 stored outdoors in shitted cribs. I" 

 Seed-corn stored in barns, and in 

 the South in almost any situation, 

 is often badly injured. 



Aside from loss in weight, 

 grain when badly infested becomes 

 unfit for milling j^urposes, and 

 will even be refused by cattle 

 and horses, which should not be 

 urged to eat it. In that case 

 hogs and fowls Avill readily con- 

 sume it. 



Remedies. — Dr. J. B. Smith, 

 in an interesting bulletin upon 

 this 23est, to which we are in- 

 debted for much of the above, 

 advises as follows: -'Thresh as 

 soon after harvest as j^ossible, and 

 bulk in tight bins or in good 

 sacks. [By ''tight bins" are 

 meant those which will not per- 

 mit the entrance or exit of the 

 moths. ] If the grain is dry when 



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