. Report of observations of injurious insects and common farm pests, during the year ... : with methods of prevention and remedy . ough the rooms twice aday and look for eggs ; also the use of a Cheese-grease that containssome rosin, and which gives a hard coating, is advised. Portions of Cheese and Ham that are found to be attacked shouldbe cut out, and as soon as possible after observation ; and, with regardto Cheese, it is recommended that, after cutting out the piece, athorough dusting of black pepper should be given, and the cavity re-filled with Cheese, and covered carefully with calico.
. Report of observations of injurious insects and common farm pests, during the year ... : with methods of prevention and remedy . ough the rooms twice aday and look for eggs ; also the use of a Cheese-grease that containssome rosin, and which gives a hard coating, is advised. Portions of Cheese and Ham that are found to be attacked shouldbe cut out, and as soon as possible after observation ; and, with regardto Cheese, it is recommended that, after cutting out the piece, athorough dusting of black pepper should be given, and the cavity re-filled with Cheese, and covered carefully with calico. A careful watch c2 20 CLOVER. [1899 should be kept for cracks, and all cracks in the Cheese should be filledat once with a mixture of flour, butter, and pepper. The Cheese shouldbe turned daily, and moved each week. Another contributor mentions flour and borax as a mixture to beused after scraping out the infested crack. CLOVER. PEAR-SHAPED WEEVILS—Purple Clover Weevil, Apio7i apricans,Heihst. { = A. fafji, Kirby ; A. fiavifevwratum, Kirby) ; Apionassimile, Kirby (? var. of above). Clover-head Weevil, Apiontrifolii, 6, 7, Apion apricans; 2-5, maggot and pupa; 8, 9, A. assimile—all natural sizeand magnified; 1, maggot feeding. Clover crops, and most especially those of Ked or Purple Clover[Trifolmm pratense), suffer much from time to time from the depreda-tions of a few species of Apion, popularly known as Pear-shapedWeevils. These beetles are of very small size, from rather less torather more than a line in length, somewhat oval in shape, andfurnished with a long and slender proboscis, more or less curved asthe case may be, giving to the beetles (when examined by a magnifiersufficiently powerful to show the form) a likeness in shape to aminiature Pear, together with its stalk—whence the popular name ofPear-shaped Weevils. There are many species of this genus in Britain; as many as aboutseventy-five are recorded as present, which for convenience of refer-ence are d
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