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stick, and let the packet of sulphur 
be squeezed, so as to make it yield 
to the water all its power and colour. 
The effect of the water is not ren- 
dered more powerful by increasing 
the quantity of ingredients. 
The water, when taken off the 
fire, is to be poured into the barrel, 
where it is to be stirred for a short 
time with astick ; this stirring must 
be repeated every day until the mix- 
ture becomes fetid, in the highest 
degree. Experience shews that the 
older, and the more fetid, the com- 
position is, the more quick is its 
action. Itis necessary to take care 
to stop the barrel well every time 
the mixture is stirred. 
When we wish to make use of 
this water, we need only sprinkle 
it, or pour it upon the plants, or 
plunge their branches into it ; but 
the best manner of using it is to 
inject it upon them with a common 
syringe, to which is adapted a pipe 
of the usual construction, except 
that its extremity should terminate 
in ahead of an inch and a half in 
diameter, pierced in the flat part 
with smadl holes, like pin-holes, for 
tender plants; but, for trees, a 
_ head pierced with larger holes may 
be made use of. 
Caterpillars, beetles, bed-bugs, 
aphides, and many other insects are 
killed by a single injection of this 
water. Insects which’ live under 
ground, those which have a hard 
shell, hornets, wasps, ants, &c. re- 
quire to be gently and continually 
injected, till the water has penetra- 
ted, to the bottom of their abode. 
Ant-hills, particularly, require two, 
four, six, of eight quarts of water, 
according to the size and extent of 
the ant-hill, which should not be 
disturbed till twenty-four hours after 
the operation. If the ants which 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
‘use of, 
happen to be absent should assert 
ble, and form another hill, it mus 
be treated in the way before men 
tioned. In this manner we shall a 
last destroy them, but they mus 
not be too much disturbed with a} 
stick ; on the contrary; the injec} 
tion should be continued till, by 
their not appearing upon the sur- 
face of the earth, they are supposed | 
to be all destroyed. 
We may advantageously add to 
the mixture two’ ounces of nua 
tomicd, which should be boiled 
with the sulphur; the water, by this 
means, will acquire more power; 
particulatly if used for destroying 
ants. 
When all the water has been made } 
the sediment should be 
thrown into a hole dugin the ground, | 
Jest the poultry, or other domestic 
animals, should eat it. 
Specification of the Patent granted to | 
Mr. John Tucker, of Wickham, in 
the County of Southampton, Tan- 
ner ; for his Method of Tanning; 
and making Leather of a superior 
Quality, and in a much shorter 
Period of Time, than hath hitherto 
been done.. Dated May 12, 1795. 
O all to whom these presents 
shall come, &c. Now know 
ye, that J, the said John Tucker, in 
compliance with the said proviso, 
do hereby declare, that the nature 
of my said invention, and the man- 
ner in which the same is to be per- 
formed, is particularly described 
and ascertained as follows ; that is 
tosay, the vat or pit may be made 
or composed either of wooden, 
earthen, metallic, or other substance 
fit for the purpose, and constructed 
in any form, or size, that may be 
necessary 
