Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . the number of earsinfested. Of course, if the farmer does not see that the barns andgranaries are free from insects when the grain is stored, the extentof the field infestation is of less importance. 24 N. C. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. • Cleanliness.—The ideal place to store grain is in a special build-ing separated from the barns, but when grain must be stored in thelatter place all old infested grain should be used before the new cropis housed, and precautions should be taken to guard against leavingheaps of waste co
Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . the number of earsinfested. Of course, if the farmer does not see that the barns andgranaries are free from insects when the grain is stored, the extentof the field infestation is of less importance. 24 N. C. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. • Cleanliness.—The ideal place to store grain is in a special build-ing separated from the barns, but when grain must be stored in thelatter place all old infested grain should be used before the new cropis housed, and precautions should be taken to guard against leavingheaps of waste corn, or other material in which the grain insects maybe feeding. The writer has known many farmers to place new cornon top of a few bushels of old corn literally being devoured by theweevils and other insects. Farmers will also often boast that theirbins or cribs are never emptied. This practice cannot be too stronglycondemned. Storing Corn in the Husk.—It has often been observed that un-husked corn is less liable to weevil injury, and this is true with varie-. Fig. 16.—Two-year-old Corn showing- protection from weevils afforded by a tight-fittinghusk—about one-half natural size. ties that have a tight-fitting husk, when not too badly injured by theear-worm. In Fig. 16 is shown an ear of corn two years old whichwas taken from the same lot as the one shown in Fig. 3. It is seenfrom this cut how the tightly fitting husk acted as a protection. Inthe same lot, however, the ears on which the husk was loose were allbadly injured. When it is considered that corn is nearly always firstinfested in the field, the value of storing unhusked corn seems some-what doubtful. Moth Traps.—All the grain moths are nocturnal in habits and maybe attracted to lights. By placing in the corn cribs wide shallow panscontaining a little kerosene, with a lantern suspended just above orset in the middle, hundreds of moths may be trapped. They will flyto the light and fall into the pan, and even i
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