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the fruit, yet might raise a prejudice against it injurious to the seller ; 
but the well-known ‘“kerosine emulsion” would do much good without 
danger, and the ‘‘ anti-pest’’ of Messrs. Morris, Little & Son, of Don- 
caster, which is almost the same as the kerosine emulsion of the 
United States of America in constituents, but is sold ready mixed in 
a semi-fluid state at a very cheap rate, would probably save much 
trouble and damage, from (respectively) the difficulty there usually is 
in mixing the “emulsion” so that the kerosine and soft-soap wash 
may unite permanently in the operation of mixing, and the great 
harm to the leafage in case the mineral oil separates, so that the 
kerosine (or paraffin) remains undiluted on one part of the leaves, and 
the soft-soap remains, not doing all the good that it was meant to do, 
on the other. 
The following observation, with which I was favoured by Mr. 8. 
L. Mosley, F.H.8., of the Beaumont Park Museum, Huddersfield, is of 
practical interest as to one branch of ornithological non-assistance in 
the matter! After mentioning that he had seen this infestation 
commonly in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Notts, and parts of York- 
shire, and also had notes of its extreme abundance near Bradford, 
likley, Pickering, &c., Mr. Mosley added :— 
‘In some places where Magpie grubs have been abundant, I know 
that sparrows are plentiful, so it is clear they do not take them—at 
least, if they do, not to any great extent.’”’—(§. L. M.) 
