The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-28

the small eggs, or deposite, which produces the little maggot which we term the weavil. It is but short time they remain in the act i've maggot form, but the precise time can not say, but probably about us long as the wheat remains in the milky state. A few years past, at the time of harvesting my wheat, the season of harvesting was very rainy. and 1 put my wheat into the barn very damp, which caused il to heat in the now. In the course of the fall, had occasion to go to the upper part of the barn, and found the inside of the roof literally covered with thls same little hv, which had been premaurely matched by the heat of the now. threshed the wheat by a machine, and, on cleaning, got several quarts of the cocoons of the weayil. probably half of which were hollow, and the hole plain to be seen, where the fly escaped. The others were sound. and con taiped the insect in the same state of life as when if encased itself to be incubated by the heat of the next season. And this perfectly accounted for the innumerable swarm ot flies which were in the roof of the barn.
 In the spring following, or near the first oi June, was i'll my barn-yard, where had thrown out the straw of my wheat, and l found the heaps covered with the same kind of fly as was in the roof the barn the fall be- fore And I have no doubt these flies were produced from the cocoon of the weavil, and like all other flies, live on purifying and de- caying substances; the manure of the yard aflording them ample subsistence, as they at first cannot Ay--ifeither could those i'll the roof of the barn.
 Now 1 conclude that these flies are all matched out about the same time, and at the usual season that wheat is in the blow, is the exact time when these flies, by law of their nature, deposte their eggs for the continuance of their species. And this accounts for the fact, that very late sown wheat, and some pieces of very early wheat, escape the time of their deposite. In Proof of the foregoing, l will mention a corroboraung circumstance, which happened to a friend of mine, the same season I have been mentioning. He went east, to sell the right of a threshing machine When in Orange county, in Vermont, wishing to show the powers of his machine, he re- quested the privilege of threshing. A man, whose name 1 have now forgotten, told him he had quantity of wheat which was very much destroyed by the weavil and now heat whigh he might thresh in welcome Soon after he commenced threshing, he found him. self and machine covered with an immense quantity of small flies, which could not fly. which no doubt were the production of the weavil, and matched in the fall by the heat oi the mow. The next parcel which he threshed. in the same neighhorhood, and put up il good condition, produced no flies. am par ticular in mentioning this fact, to show that the weavil is contained in the dormant state 1 in the wheat, straw, and chaff, and matched in the spring following, from manure, barn litter, and heaps of straw and Is probably in the vigor of its life at the time wheat is Ill the, blow, and at that time deposites its eggs to be matched the next season; and that wheat in the soft state IS the only article proper for nourishing their young while in the maggot form, and afording them sale-keepng through the winter
 Now, should these become established facts, 1t Is plain to be seen that the united exertion of the farmers can, in two or three years, totally destroy their race.
 The manner of destroying which pro- pose, is to thresh the wheat in the fields, which may easily be done by threshing ma chimes, and burn all the straw and chan in the fields, and burn over his stubble ground, Let this be practised by every person who raises wheat, and ill two years, l am bold to say, we shall not be troubled with the wea- vii. The wheat should be iloured in the winter, and such as is kept for seed should be subjected to some process, to destroy what few insects might be lodged among it. But the farmers may rest assured, that the great evil of the insect Is not in the seed wheat, but ill the straw and chaf