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3. Animals. In India, not only the incursions 

 of domesticated animals, but in some districts of 

 the wild elephant, buffalo, hog, and porcupine, are 

 frequent sources of injury. Almost every plantation 

 is liable also to the attack of the jackal, and rats 

 are especially destructive. 



4. White- ants. The sets of the sugarcane 

 must be carefully watched to preserve them from 

 the white-ant (termes fatalis), to attacks from which 

 they are subject until they have begun to shoot. 

 To prevent this, the following mixture has been 

 recommended : 



Assafoetida (Hing) 8 chittacks. 



Mustard-seed Cake (Sarsum ki Khalli)...S seers. 



Putrid Fish 4 



Bruised Butchroot, or Muddur 2 w 



Mix them together in a large vessel, with 

 water sufficient to make them into the thickness 

 of curds ; then steep each tip of cane in it for 

 half an hour before planting ; and lastly, water 

 the lines three times, previous to setting the cane, 

 by irrigating the water-course with water mixed 

 with bruised butchroot or, if not procurable, 

 muddur. 



A very effectual mode of destroying the white - 

 ant is by mixing a small quantity of arsenic with 

 a few ounces of burned bread, pulverized flour, or 

 oatmeal, moistened with molasses, and placing 

 pieces of the dough thus made, each about the size 



