Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

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Identifikator:: 1738588467

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-115043

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Title:: Proceedings of the South & East African combined agricultural, cotton, entomological and mycological conference held at Nairobi, August, 1926

Place of publication:: Nairobi

Publisher:: East African Standard

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: VI, 337 Seiten; Ill.

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Title:: Part IV. Etomology & Mycology

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PART 1V. 243 chaff is worked into the grain mass; the natural ventilation of the grain mass fails and a mustiness is set up which attracts moth and weevil. Introduced types from India on trial, while bolder and of preferable colour. lack this hardness so important in storage. Rice, so long as it is stored as paddy (unhulled) defied the rice weevil. Long, narrow bags made from palm fibre are used. The losses in rice occur in the Indian dukas, where the cleaned rice is stored in sacks to await the rise in market. Maize is stored in the shuck, hung up in various manners in the open. It is essential that maize for the native should have a long pointed shuck-covering, completely protecting the cob. If this is done this method of storage is highly successful. Introduced varieties of maize generally show a high percentage of cobs with tip protruding; moreover, they have a softer, starchier grain, which is attractive to the weevil, and on this account the native is not inclined to grow them. He wants a medium grain, hard maize. well covered. The storage of legumes is in a less satisfactory state. These are generally stored, in various types of receptacles, in the pod. After shelling, weevil quickly takes the grain. Trials have been made of Pisum arvense and the black Phaseolus radiatus, which have been found more resistant to bean weevil in India. Definite results cannot vet be reported, but the black Phaseolus promises well. Mr. SIMPSON stated that Eleusine grain was the grain which was relied upon in Uganda for storage against famine years. Mr. RITCHIE said that Bulrush millet had equally good keeping properties. Eleusine in Tanganyika Territory was grown purely as a ** pombe crop. CHAPTER VII. LEGISLATIVE MEASURES. (Discussed at Joint Meeting of Agricultural, Entomological, and Mycological Sections.) PREVENTION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CODLING MOTH THROUGH IMPORTS OF FRESH FRUIT. ~ Mr. ANDERSON explained that apples had been imported into Kenya from South Africa for some considerable time, but that recently some doubt had been expressed as to the wisdom of this ‘mport owing to the danger of introducing Codling Moth. He quoted extracts from correspondence from the Department of Agriculture of the Union of South Africa, which expressed the opinion that there would always be a slight danger of introducing the pest, in spite of rigid examination of imports. He stated that there was no Codling Moth in Kenya at present; and that if apples and pears were prohibited it would also be necessary to prohibit plums and all other known hosts. On the other hand, apples and pears had been imported LN

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