The bran should be made into a mash, of the consistency oi 

 porridge, with the molasses and sufficient water. The Paris 

 green should then be thoroughly stirred into the mash. Maize 

 may be substituted for bran and arsenate of lead for Paris 

 green. 



The Mally formula recommended in the Cape Colony is as 

 follows : 



Arsenite of soda ... . 1 Ib. 



Treacle or black sugar 8 Ibs. 



Water 10 gallons. 



The arsenite should be dissolved in about a pint of boiling, 

 water and added to the treacle or sugar solution. Arsenite of 

 soda is a cheaper and more rapidly effective poison than Paris 

 green. This solution can either be used to make up a mash 

 with bran or meal, or, if any greenstuff is available, it can be 

 chopped up finely, wetted with the poison, and distributed 

 broadcast but very thinly over the ground. The poisoned bran 

 or meal is usually distributed in spoonfuls about the ground, 

 and it remains moist and attractive longer if placed under a 

 piece of board or anything that will keep the sun off. It is 

 possible that maize meal is not quite such a good medium as 

 bran to carry the poison, but the meal is present on every 

 farm, whilst the bran, which is also a rather more expensive 

 material in this territory, would have to be purchased specially. - 

 Cutworms will eat sweetened meal quite readily when fresh, 

 and in cage experiments have shewn little preference for either 

 bran or meal. The chief drawback to meal is that it dries up 

 into a very hard and solid mass. The use of chopped green- 

 stuff, of course, lessens the expense considerably, but unfor- 

 tunately greenstuff is very scarce on most farms in September, 

 when the seed beds are being prepared. If irrigation is being 

 practised, or an early crop is being grown on naturally moist 

 ground, greenstuff will be the cheapest material to use. There 

 is, of course, no difficulty in growing a quantity of lettuce or 

 other hardy vegetable to furnish greenstuff for baiting purposes. 



It must be borne in mind that tobacco seed beds in the 

 months of October and November constitute an attractive array 

 of succulent vegetation, when succulent vegetation is scarce 

 elsewhere , and that cutworms are likely to -be attracted thither 

 from some distance round. It is advisable, therefore, to clear 



