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and the fumes as well as the actual substance are poisonous to man 
and animals. Seed at any time may be treated in this manner. 
Diseased seed should never he sown ; they may be fed to stock 
without doing any harm to the latter. If the use of the bisulphide 
ot carbon is objected to owing to the inflammable nature of the 
liquid and its poisonous fumes, the only other way is to hold the 
seed over until the second year. The vitality of the pea is not 
harmed, and by that time all weevils will have hatched out and died. 
Seed peas may also be treated in the following way : put them in 
an air-tight box and then pour half a pound of chloroform on to a rag 
for every twenty -five bushels of peas and push the rag down into the 
peas, close up the box and leave for a week. The chloroform kills 
all the insects and does not harm the seed or affect the flavour in 
any way. 
A Remedy for the Pea Weevil. 
(Sitones lineatus, L.) 
Dr. A. H. T. de Montmorency, of Carrickmines, co. Dublin, 
sends the following useful note regarding the Pea Weevil and the 
prevention of its damage : — 
“ Last spring I was worried with my peas being eaten away, and 
I could not get any information in seed shops or elsewhere as to the 
circular pieces eaten out of the young shoots when coming up. I 
went over with tulips to the Temple Garden Flower Show, and 
remaining in London for a while, I went down to the Natural 
History Museum, and on looking at one glass case, * Pests of tire 
Garden/ I saw about the Pea Weevil, and at once saw I had the 
enemy that had compelled me to sow the rows a third time before I 
left home. When I returned home I found my third sowing also 
eaten away except one row. Here is the point. This row I had 
covered with fine earth I was removing from a house I grow potatoes 
and tomatoes in. They were in splendid order, and a fine row con- 
sequently. Why not put in the case as a remedy — cover with fine 
earth. The insects have not the hiding-places as they had in other 
places, as my soil was all very coarse and lumpy owing to the wet 
season. It was so marked that I thought it well to bring it under 
your notice.” 
