fio Early Experienced. 



country should be quite independent of sucli supplies, as in ad- 

 dition to the sources indicated above, i^entles and mealworms 

 may be bred, also clothes and similar moths — the last named 

 can be bred anywhere, as also can mealworms, as with care the 

 process occasions no offensive odour, but the reariui^' quarters of 

 the first named must be situated at some distance from the 

 dwellini^-housc. or frecpiented L^arden paths. I'erhai)s I had 

 better .i^ixe Ijrief methods of procedure before connnentini;' on 

 other foods. 



Hrccdiiig (ioitirs : The brcedins^' recej^tacles should be of 

 metal — emptv biscuit tins make .L;ood store boxes — a sanitary 

 dust-bin makes a i^ood hrst receptacle. ( )ther utensils required 

 will be. a couple of (i. I. pails, a box larj^e enough for them to 

 stand in and a cover for this l)ox, consisting" of a light wooden 

 frame to ht it like a lid. o\er which half-inch mesh wire netting 

 is to be stretched; also a hne mesh sieve. Stand the box in a 

 sunnv out of the way corner of the garden, then procure suffi- 

 cient meat, jjoultry, game, and fish offal to fill one of the pails, 

 place it in the box and put on the netting covered lid: three days 

 later procure offal for the second \):u\ and put that with the 

 iir-;t. .\^ -oon as the first hlled i)ail is alive with gentl-fs tak. ii 

 out. 'I'he dust-bin will now be required, put six to twelve inches 

 of sand in the bottom, place the coarse sieve over the top, and 

 etnptv the gentle-filled offal into the sieve; in a short time the 

 gentles will have passed through the sieve into the sand at 

 bottom of dust-bin, the process can be aided by tmaiing- over the 

 offal occasionally. The pail should be refilled with offal and 

 placed back in the proi)ag"ator. The offal when all the g^entles 

 have passed from it, should be buried where it will help to 

 fertilize growing" croi)s. The gentles in the dust-bin should 

 be left for a couple of days, when they should be sifted from the 

 sand and put into the store tin.s in fresh sand, sifting" them into 

 fresh sand again every other day— when the g'entles are white 

 right through they are ready for use. The store tins should 

 l)e kept in as cool cpiarters as i)ossible and will not now bt 

 offensive. By so treating" the i)ails in rotation a continuous 

 su])i)lv can be easily maintained, and the operation is not nearl) 

 so formidable in practice as it appears on paper. 



Breeding MealwoDiis : — I'rocure either some fully grown 



