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former and thirty-four cents for the latter. Three applications 
with the torch were about equal to two treatments with the kero- 
sene emulsion, the first being most convenient to use but also most 
dangerous to the plant. It is suggested that this gasoline torch may 
be found a convenient apparatus for destroying chinch-bugs collect- 
ing either in the dusty furrow or along the coal-tar line, when these 
are used as barriers. 
