THE CORN WEWIL. 2^ 



ous parts of the grain on which they feed. Corn- 

 lofts are often laid waste by these grubs, whose 

 numbers are sometimes so great as to devour nearly 

 the whole of their contents. When the grub has 

 attained its full size, it still remains within the grain, 

 hidden under the empty husk. There, being trans- 

 formed, it becomes a chrysalis ; and, when it has 

 attained its perfect state, it forces its way out. 



It is no easy matter to discover by the eye even 

 the Grains that are thus attacked, for in exterior an- 

 pearance they are still large and full. If, however, 

 they are thrown into water, their lightness soon de- 

 tects them. 



To rid a granary of these destructive insects, 

 it has been recommended to farmers to spread their 

 corn in the sun, when they will creep out of their 

 holes j and, by often stirring the corn while in this 

 situation, it is supposed they may be completely ex- 

 pelled. It is also said that they may be destroyed 

 by strewing boughs of elder, or branches of hen- 

 bane among the corn. In a late Paris paper, a 

 gentleman says that, about the month of June, 

 when his granaries and barns, that had been much 

 infested by Weevils, were all empty, he caused a 

 number of the hills of the large ants to be collected 

 in bags, and placed in different parts about them. 

 The ants immediately attacked the Weevils that 

 were on the walls and other parts, and destroyed 

 them so completely that, in a very short time, not a 

 single one was to be seen ; and since that period, 

 he says, they have never appeared on his premises. 



