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should be mixed with 100 gallons of water 

 to make the mixture) or some other 

 poisonous mixture, a number of crickets 

 may be got rid of by this means. It has 

 to be tried sometimes when the crickets 

 visit the garden at night from some neigh- 

 bouring tracts of jungle in which it is 

 hopeless to expect to be able to find their 

 holes. 



If, however, the crickets are living in 

 the garden in some sandy tract of soil, or 

 in the seed beds, the best way is to put on 

 a chokra to hunt them up. Give him a pot 

 of water and a small bag and tell him to 

 pour a little water down each hole he 

 finds. The crickets will at once run up 

 to the surface in a terrible fright at the 

 sudden inundation, and they can then be 

 caught and killed and placed in the bag. 

 It is absolutely essential to make the 

 youngster produce his * bag ' and to pay 

 him only per head of the ' kill,' or you will 

 find that the crickets will increase instead 

 of decrease in the compound or nursery. 

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