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Statistics. 



127 



Black Ants. — -D.E.F. wishes to know how to poison black ants. They are 

 located in a chimney and are a great pest. 



Answer. — Mix arsenic with sugar or honey, and with a brush or rag smear 

 same on chimney, out of the reach of children and domestic animals. If squirted 

 into the crevices in the brick-work, benzole will, if persisted in, drive the ants away. 



Hawthorn Hedge. — H.P.B. asks whether it is advisable to cut a young, fast- 

 growing hawthorn hedge during the summer. 



Answer. — The best and most suitable time to cut a hawthorn hedge is imme- 

 ■diately after the flowering season. If the season be fairly cool the cutting may 

 be delayed till January. It should be cut hard back so as to insure a good 

 furnishing of lower growths, otherwise the hedge will grow all to top with verv 

 little undero-rowth. 



STATISTICS. 



FouKTH Quarter, 1909. 



Rainfall In Victoria. 



Table showing average amount of rainfall in each of the 26 Basins or Regions con- 

 stituting the State of Victoria for each month and the quarter, with cones[ionding 

 monthly and quarterly averages for each Basin, deduced from all available recorda 

 to dnte. 



100 points ^ 1 inch. 



H. A. HUNT, 

 Commonwealth MeteorologisL 



