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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 
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