Vol. XVm. No. 450. 



THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 



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the round worm, and is being used with the greatest success 

 by the hospital superintendent for the treatment of worms 

 among the horses owned by the Vancouver Fiji Sugar 

 Company.' The Tainanua hospital fiod the most efficient 

 method for treatment ni dose.s of usually 15 minims in capsule 

 at .5.. 30, 6.30 and 7 30 a.m, preceded and folowed by an 

 aperient with no food whatever during the period of the 

 treatment. This is called the 'intensive' method, and 'one may 

 be .«ure of obtaining a cire in 90 per cnt. of patients after 

 one treatment only. If the patients are kept very quiet lying 

 down, there are no ill eifects, such as giddiness or nausea 

 (which only occur when the patient is allowed to move about 

 or work). This method is most suitable for hospital use, 

 where patients are under control and obser-'ation. In 

 another method, the "Routine", for outrpatients and for use 

 on estates far away from their me iical officer, the second 

 capsule is omitted, but it is necessary to repeat this treat- 

 ment several times according to the .severity "f the 

 infection, before a cure can be obtained. In view of 

 the Fiji medical authorities investigating the matter, 

 there are many valid reasons why oil of chenopodiura 

 should supersede thymol as a v rmifuge aga'nst anklylos- 

 tome — it is less toxic, more efficient, not so costly, and 

 has much greater etfect upon the nscarides, which are so 

 often associated with the hookworms.' The failure of 

 some men to obtain good results with chenopodium, 

 is attributed to the small dose employed, and the method of 

 administration. A regular scale of doses has been drawn up 

 for the first two treatments, viz , over sixty years of age, 20 

 minims; twenty one to sixty years of age, 30 minims; 

 eleven to twenty years of age, 20 minims; under ten years 

 of age, 3 drops for e'ch year of age; pregnant women, 

 18 drops The dosing is slightly increised for those not 

 cured by two treatments. This dosage experience is based 

 on the first thousand cures occurring in Fiji. It has been 

 found that of those requiring two treatments, about 70 per 

 cent, or more are cured. The view is expressed, that this 

 percentage could be increased if the patients were more 

 careful of their diet during the day of treatment ; in a few 

 well selected patients, obedient to advice, the cures after 

 •two treatments reached 8-5 per cent. Of the 1,000 cures 

 obtained in the first three mon hs of active work in Fiji, 

 801 occurred after two treatments, 184 after four, and 

 .the remaining 1-5 after five treatments 



The medical reports do not doubt that the percentage 

 of cures after one treatment might practically reach 100 

 if the patients were under complete control, and the diet, 

 the aperient, and the amount of the oil of chenopodium were 

 properly adjusted. Of 3,088 infected persons found in 

 Navua, 3,010. or 97-7 per cent., were treated; of these 

 2,794, or 92 8 per cent, were cured. The principal factor 

 deterring those treated, but not cured, was removal from 

 the area. 



Since writing the above, an official report states that a 

 campaign against ankylostomiasis was started in 1917 by 

 Dr. J. F. Kendrick, in Seychelles, under the auspices of the 

 International Health Board. By the end of the year 

 treatment had been given to praciica'ly two-thirds of the 

 population of the island of Mahe. The campaign is being 

 most thoroughly conducted, and is being carried out by 

 jneans of house-to-house visitation, all who are infected, 

 being treated. It has been found that 90 per cent, of the 

 people are infected, and the improvement, owing to the 

 treatment, is clearly visibli in the general health of the 

 population. People of all classes have oflfered themselves 

 for treatment with great keenness. 



SALUBRITIES. 



THE PATRON SAINT. 



Chemical workers in .t,11 parts of the world will be 

 gjatified to learn that according to an American con- 

 temporary, The Little Journal, they are now provided 

 with a patron saint. Our contemporary say.s; — 



So far as we are awire, chemists have no patron saint 

 and they surely need one We propose St. Loy, who is 

 known in ecclesiastical writings at St. Elegius, and to the 

 French as St. Eloy. He was a goldsmith of L raoges, of 

 great talent, and Clovis II made him master of the mint. He 

 was very handsome, as chemists .should be, and diligent, as 

 they are these days, and wore fine appirel, as they do when 

 they can. He practised austerities in secret, and chemists 

 sometimes do this in their laboratories. He had great 

 mechanical skill, which chemists often need The legend is 

 told that once he was asked to shoe a vici us stallion that 

 Was brought to him, and as the men could n'>t hold the 

 animal, he took his trusty knife, and with one movement of 

 his arm, severed the unshod leg from th^ horse's body. Then 

 he adjusted the shoe to his satisfaction, while the stallion, 

 having but three legs left, stood still. The work accomplished 

 he set the leg back into its proper position, whereupon the 

 beast trotted away cheerfully^ without a sign of lameness. 

 Versatility of this sort is occasionally needed in the 

 adjustment of difficult laboratory apparatus. 



THE FIRST ADVERTISEMENT. 



The rainbow was the first great advertisement. It had 

 position. It had colour. It held out a promise of bene- 

 fit in eflfect : 'I shall not drown you again if you behave.' 

 And then it had the value of repetition, beciuse it is repeated 

 in the same position and colour and promise after every 

 rain. 



The next big advertiser was Caesar when he wrote oc 

 the walls of Rome, for the people lo read, just what the 

 senators were doing in the senate chambers. These adver- 

 tisments of old contained the elements necessary in all great 

 advertiseing, which are : — 



Advertising must be seen ; it must be read ; it must be 

 understood ; it must be believed : it must create a want. 



Advertising is difficult beciuse you must make the man 

 stop thinking as he things and make him think as you think, 

 and interest him in the thing you are interested in It is 

 easy to interest a man in himself. If yojr advertising 

 convinces him that it is goud for himself, you have him sold. 

 (From the Kansas f/tduslnatist.) 



A Temple of Agriculture. — A recent issue of the 



Southern Planter says that interest in the proposed Temple 

 of Agriculture to be erected in Washington is growing. The 

 National Board of Farm Organizations has the matter in 

 charge, and the Farmers' Tnion brethren will undoubtedly 

 hear from it in due course. It is presumed that one of the 

 first uses of this temp'e, will be as a place in which to pray 

 for rain. 



At an opening session of the General Legislative Council 

 of the Leeward Islands a high official 'described Autigua as 

 a Presidency whose need^ ase greater than its nsourttfl 

 Dominica, perhaps, might be equally well described as am 

 island whose resources are greater than its needs — except 

 in the mater of roads. 



