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VI.— PESTS OF STORED GRAIN. 



In February 1899, the Reporter on Economic Products to the 

 Government of India, forwarded some moths, which he had 

 received from Burma as attacking rice. This proved to be a Tineid 

 moth new to our collection. This moth has been reported as 

 infesting stored grain in several parts of India. 



In April 1899, the Reporter on Economic Products to the 

 Government of India forwarded some weevils, reported to be dam- 

 aging rice. Mons. A. Grenville identified them as Tribolium con- 

 fusion, Duv. 



REPRINTS and EXTRACTS. 



The following remedies are summarised from the valuable and 

 interesting report of Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, LL.D., on Injurious 

 Insects and Common Farm Pests of the British Islands for the 



year 1899 :— • 



1, Cabbage Butterflies. 



Prevention and remedies for Cabbage Butterflies. Genus Pieris. 



" In the course of the infestations of the past two seasons I have* tried two pre- 

 ventive experiments on the cabbage beds in my own garden, the first of wihch 

 (in 1898)30 totally failed that it may perhaps save waste of time to others just 

 to mention it. At my desire my gardener dressed the plants with a good mixture 

 of lime and soot, well powdered and thrown on the leaves. This did not appear 

 to do the least good. The leaves were eaten back until little or nothing 

 remained, but the midrib and the side-veins standing or hanging like strings 

 and of the plants which recovered so as to make something like growth, the 

 result was really hardly worth cooking. 



" In the past season I was much more successful. Not long after the White 

 Butterflies appeared as a regular infestation, my gardener syringed various kinds 

 of the Cabbage plants in the different beds with the mixture known as Little's 

 Antipest. This is a mixture of soft soap and mineral oil so far as I am acquainted 

 with its chief ingredients; in fact may be described as our British counterpart of 

 the c Kerosine emulsion ' which is so greatly and successfully used in the United 

 States and Canada for destruction of caterpillars, as a spray on leafage. 



" Shortly after syringing there were noticeably fewer White Butterflies in the 

 kitchen garden than in the flower garden adjoining, and the result was such a 

 much smaller appearance of caterpillars that though two beds were a good deal 

 injured, the other two borders and some lines of luxuriant cauliflower plants were 

 practically little harmed, and even the first two named were in fairly good order; 

 whilst in various other gardens in the neighbourhood the condition of the attacked 

 plants was stated to be nearly or quite as bad as in 1898. From this success 

 (although only on the scale of experiment in my own garden) it seems to me that 

 the plan would be at least worth trying for garden use. 



