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and let them go, and so on re]:)eat until tlie glass is 

 emptied of its fungus contents. The water must be cooled 

 and boiled, also the corks. A tube of the fungus culture 

 will make a copious growth on a basin of bread fungus 

 in three days, and the fungus thus raised will make quite 

 a quantity of water or other bread fungus. The bread 

 is best for use when about four days old. Farmers can 

 rely on this fungus disease as their friend, and should 

 everywhere take up the work of extermination, which is 

 not only useful but pleasurable. 



NOTES ON THE PREPARATION" OF THE LOCUST FUNGUS, AND USE 

 OF SAME IN INFECTING LOCUSTS, THE FOLLOWING BEING 

 THE METHODS AS SUCCESSFULLY ADOPTED IN OUR EXPERI- 

 MENTS. 



Preparation of Water Fungus. 



1st. Place two teaspoonfuls of sugar in a tumbler, 

 open a tube, and remove the fungus contents entire, place 

 this in the sugar, and rub the whole together with a spoon 

 until the material is thoroughly broken up and mixed 

 with the suoar. Then dissolve this thorouo-hlv with 

 three-quarters of a tumblerful of water which has pre- 

 viously been boiled and allowed to cool ; float in this three 

 or four pieces of cork which have been previously 

 boiled and allowed to cool, then cover the tumbler with a 

 piece of paper, and place it in a warm corner of the 

 house, until the fungus is seen to be growing around the 

 pieces of cork. A temperature of anything from 70 per 

 cent, upwards will cause the fungus to develop in two or 

 three days, the fungus is then ready for use. 



To Distribute. 



2nd. Make a hoop-net about 2 feet in diameter, of any 

 gauze-like material, about 2 feet deep, with a handle 

 attached. In this capture the locusts, and dijD them into 



