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" From long-continued experiments, I have at last discovered that they may be almost entirely expelled from any quarter in which the canes are carefully stripped of the dry and useless leaves, under which, as they become loose, the female borer deposits... "
Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of ... - Page 157
by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) - 1827
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The Nature and Properties of the Sugar Cane: With Practical Directions for ...

George Richardson Porter - Sugar - 1830 - 436 pages
...the plants, rather than kill those which have already begun their operations. " From long-continued experiments, I have at last discovered that they may...become loose, the female borer deposits her eggs. " It is well known that the vaginating leaves of the cane hold, for a long period, the water which...
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Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany ..., Volume 5

John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1832 - 820 pages
...to lessen the numbers of those creatures which injure or destroy our property. From long-continued experiments, I have at last discovered that they may...inattentive planter to cleaner and more careful modes of husbandry. When they swarm so as to deprive him of his crops, the loss must in future be attributed...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 21

1833 - 468 pages
...kill those which have already begun their operations. Indeed, from long continued experiments, he has discovered, that they may be almost entirely expelled...become loose, the female borer deposits her eggs; and, were the ants less prolific than they are, we might encourage them as useful helpmates in the...
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The Nature and Properties of Sugar Cane: With Practical Directions for the ...

George Richardson Porter - Sugar - 1843 - 280 pages
...t In Tobago they have another destructive insect called the jumper fly. — .Edwards's West Indies. that they may be almost entirely expelled from any...become loose, the female borer deposits her eggs. " It is well known that the paginating leaves of the cane hold, for a long period, the water which...
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The History of Barbados: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical ...

Robert Hermann Schomburgk - Barbados - 1848 - 780 pages
...From long-continued experience Mr. Guilding discovered that they may be almost entirely expelled if the canes are carefully stripped of the dry and useless...become loose, the female Borer deposits her eggs. It has been observed that the Borer commits more injury among plants than among ratoon-canes, which...
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Cane Sugar: A Textbook on the Agriculture of the Sugar Cane, the Manufacture ...

Noël Deerr - Sugar - 1921 - 806 pages
...means in our power, to lessen the number of those creatures which injure or destroy our property. Those animals, when they assail us in moderate numbers, act only as a stimulus, wisely sent to arouse the inattentive planter to cleaner and more careful modes of husbandry. When they swarm so as...
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