Some Insects Injurious To Wheat

Author : A. A. Girault
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333529888
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Insects Injurious to Stored Grains and Their Ground Products (Classic Reprint) written by A. A. Girault and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Insects Injurious to Stored Grains and Their Ground Products It is well known that many kinds of insects live in wheat and other grains and in meal and our, either accompanying the grain to the granary from the field, or going to it after it is stored. Many, indeed, go with it from the producer to the customer thru cribs, elevators, mills, and warehouses, to the retail store, and thence to our homes. Insects of these habits are particularly hardy, and many are so far omnivorous that they may live and multiply on food which seems to us to contain no nourishment. All are either beetles or their larvae, or the larvae of moths. The latter are of fewer kinds but of greater capacity for mischief than the former. At any particular time and place, half a dozen to a dozen of these insects may be present, working in various ways, some of them, indeed, not directly injurious but feeding on chaff or other granary debris, and obnoxious merely by their presence. Of the others, one or more may be injuring individual kernels of grain in a way to make them unfit for food and to prevent their growing if sown; or one may be webbing together our and meal in mills, making them useless for food, and also clogging some parts of the machinery by webbing together masses of our. Further harm may be done by causing fermentation in the stored grain. The percentage of actual injury may not be large for the whole mass infested, but the mere presence of considerable numbers of these insects reduces the value of the grain or our, and may interfere seriously with its sale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."