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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 14

Prevention

Prevention.

The best means of prevention are to have granaries and storerooms well brushed down with stiff brushes or brooms, and washed with soft soap and hot water. After a bad attack this should be done two or three times over, and the doors and windows left open all day and night, as the weevils are very susceptible to cold.

Corn lying in suspected places should be moved and turned over and over frequently when in heaps, at the approach of warm weather, in order to disturb the females in egg laying, and running it down through winnowing machines also prevents this.