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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 14

Prevention

Prevention.

Peas and beans intended for seed should be most carefully examined, and rejected if the samples contain any holes in them. page 59 In cases where it is suspected that pulse for seed is affected, it might be kiln dried, at a temperature not high enough to injure the germinating power.

Peas and beans, concerning which there are suspicions that they contain larvæ, though there may not at present be any holes in them, should be well winnowed or cleaned with special screens, so that the light insect-affected pulse may be taken out as much as possible.

Farmers and market gardeners should be especially careful to examine peas and beans and, indeed, seeds of all kinds before they sow them. Much direct disappointment and great losses are caused by sowing seeds injured by insect agency.