Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Controlling Insects in Flour Mills
The present-day practice of storing ?our for long periods makes it necessary not only to provide protection from insect invasion while it is in storage but also to see that it is so manufactured, packaged, and delivered that it is free from insect life when it is placed in storage. The presence of insects or their excrement in ?our is considered to render it unfit for human food, and ?our so contaminated is liable to seizure if it enters interstate commerce.
Stored grain and milled cereal products are fed upon by a large group of insects that have adapted themselves to a diet of dried vegetable material. Some of these insects breed almost exclusively within the kernels of grains and are of importance to the miller only as destroyers of the raw unprocessed grain. Others do little damage to whole grain but are extremely destructive to milled cereal prod ucts and cause great concern when they become established in the ?our mill. A knowledge of the more important insect pests of both grain and milled cereal products will aid in a proper understanding of the problems involved in preventing losses from their activities.
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