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vineyard, syringing an acre of vines with this solution, and 

 have found it produce a most important effect, though, of 

 course, the seeds are propagated with wonderful rapidity, 

 and in favorable weather the mildew is continued, and it 

 will be necessary to make repeated applications ; and, even 

 then, I do not say it is a sovereign remedy. 



Mr. MuEEAY. In regard to the preparation of sulphur 

 with lime : I have used it for a great many years, more than 

 forty years, at least ; and I will state to the gentleman exactly 

 how I have always prepared it. I take about half a peck of 

 flour of sulphur ; then I go and get quite a large lump of 

 lime, a solid lump, probably as much as would go into a half- 

 peck measure. Without breaking it at all, I lay that in the 

 centre of the bottom of a tub that I always keep for that 

 purpose. I then take half a peck of sulphur, and lay it 

 exactly over the lime, covering it all up. I then pour a pail 

 of boiling water gently over the sulphur and lime, and it 

 immediately begins to boil. I keep doing that until I have 

 used three pails of boiling water ; and the moment the third 

 pail is put on, I commence stirring it with a stick, and con- 

 tinue stirring it until every thing is completely dissolved, 

 and nothing is to be seen on the surface but the clear liquid. 

 Then, after it has cooled, I always strain the liquid, and put 

 it in either a glass or stone jug, — glass is decidedly the best, 

 — and cork it tight. When I want to use it upon grape- 

 vines in the house, when there is an appearance of mildew, I 

 take about half a pint of that clear liquid, and put it into a 

 common water-pail of water, and syringe the vines with that ; 

 and, as Mr. Strong says, I will guarantee a perfect cure for 

 mildew. It immediately vanishes. It is a very simple 

 thing ; but very few people seem to understand how to pre- 

 pare it. I have prepared it so often, that I feel perfectly 

 capable of giving an explanation to any gentleman here who 

 has never used it. I have kept it several years, and it was 

 just as good at the end of four or five years as it was the first 

 year. 



Question. I have been very much pleased with the 

 answer, and I would like to ask another question. This 

 year, and every year, my cabbages have been covered with a 

 sort of bluish-colored insect. I would like to know whether 

 this li(|uid would be a remedy for that trouble. It looks 



