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and sifters; machines for blowing dry poisons, squirters of fluid 

 poisons and emulsions, the best of which are fountain-pumps. For 

 spraying orchards, groves, and forest-trees, force- or fountain-pumps 

 with a long hose, the end of which passes through a bamboo pole 

 ending in a cyclone or eddy-chamber nozzle, are very efficient. 



Kemedies against Bots. Those of cattle may be pressed with the 

 thumb out of the tumors on the back after slightly enlarging the 

 abscess with a knife or scalpel; otherwise, if the bot is burst within 

 the tumor, inflammation will result. 



Sheep-bots may be removed from the nostrils before they have 

 penetrated far by inserting a feather anointed with oil of turpentine, 

 and gently moving it about. Dilute carbolic acid injected with a 

 syringe is also beneficial. As a preventive, anointing the nose with 

 coal-tar has been recommended, and salt-troughs are smeared with 

 this substance to accomplish this anointing more easily. 



As a preventive against horse-bots, frequent currying and clipping 

 the hair removes the eggs. This need be done only during the time 

 when the flies are about. (Riley.) 



Miscellaneous Kemedies The clothes-moth is exterminated from 

 furniture by soaking chairs, sofas, etc., in tanks of kerosene and then 

 recovering them; carpet moths and beetles are very difficult to over- 

 come; but they may be kept under to a great extent by ironing the 

 edges, applying Persian insect-powder in closely shut rooms, or 

 saturating the edges next to the wall with benzine, care being taken 

 not to set the room on tire. A room or bedstead may, by the use of 

 kerosene or of corrosive sublimate, be disinfected of bed-bugs. 



Mites are generally destroyed by sulphur; the itch-mite by sulphur- 

 ointment; lice on animals by carbolic soap, or kerosene-oil emulsions, 

 or any oil or grease; lice on chickens may be diminished by white- 

 washing the coop, fumigating it with sulphur or washing with 

 kerosene; cockroaches succumb to equal parts of powdered borax 

 and sugar placed in their way. The bites of mosquitoes, stings of 

 bugs, bees, etc., may be treated locally with ammonia or chloroform, 

 bee-stings with wet mud applied to the wound; while the bites of 

 centipedes and the stings of scorpions may be treated with diffusible 

 stimulants, such as ammonia taken in repeated doses internally, be- 

 sides brandy or whiskey, to support the system until the patient 

 recovers from the shock. 



Chrysophanus thoe, right side as seen beneath. 



