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Show Wefyils in Barns. Wm. G arrett, New London. Pa., has recently purchased pur-chased a farm, and finds the barn in tested with weevils. A.-ks how he shall get rid of them. Dr. Trimble says that in Pennsylvania the old farmers, when they find their barns infested, stack their grain a year or two until the injects are starved nut for want of food. Ihe same practice obtains with ships iu the grain trade. They become so infested with weevils that shippers dare not tiun the grain in them. They are laid by for a year, or employed for other freight until the weeviis disappear. A member suggested sug-gested giving the barn a steam bath. Mr Fu.ler said it would be easier to give a specific remedy for this weevil if we only knew what kind it is; there are many species, and what is death to one may be food to another. Let Mr. Garrett send the club a specimen of the weevil complained of, and we may b able to tell him what to do with iL |