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METHOD 
OF DESTROYING THE WEAVE! IN WHEAT. 
By EZRA UHOMMEDIEUs Vice-President of the Society 
weavel is an insect well known in the old 
settled parts of the country to be very destructive 
to wheat as well as to some other kinds of grain in 
the sheaf, and when put into the bin, if continued 
there during the summer or any considerable length 
of time. If they get into a barn there is no getting 
rid of them. I have known farmers to take up their 
barn floors, and take out baskets full of them, and 
yet, by moving the wheat in the barn, did not ex¬ 
perience much relief by their endeavors to destroy 
them, and were obliged to stack their wheat at a 
distance from the barn. They are an insect that 
multiply exceedingly, and if they get into a heap 
or bin of wheat they soon destroy it. I was never 
troubled with this insect till last year. I had a bin 
of wheat, which I kept over the summer, and on 
examining it found it alive with those insects. I 
endeavored, by winnowing, to separate them from 
the wheat, but, finding that process would not an¬ 
swer, I desisted, and went to a miller, who I heard 
had been much troubled with them; he informed- 
me, that he had tried many experiments to clear his 
mill, and a heap of wheat he had on hand, from 
them, and, on hearing that imslaked lime would 
destroy them, he made use of it, by mixing it with 
the heap of wheat, and strewing it over every part 
