52 " THE LEAVES OF THE TREE were FOR THE HEALING OF THE NATIONS. 



Of Insect Pest Eradication Discovery. 



The object of my invention is to provide simple, cheap and effective 

 means for the total and permanent extirpation of all insect and parasitical 

 pests injurious or fatal to vegetable growth wherever such have made their 

 appearance, and the prevention thereof in localities where they are still 

 unknown. Especially have my efforts been directed in devising the same, 

 to finding a specific for the extermination of the phylloxera vastatrix. (The 

 grape-vine phylloxera or vine pest) and a practical way of preventing its 

 reappearance once it has been rooted out. 



I attain this object first by creating a parasitic repellant atmosphere 

 through the agency of Eucalyptus fringes and belts bounding and inter- 

 secting generally all cultivation paddocks, as also orchards, vineyards, 

 olive-yards, hop fields, flower and vegetable gardens, and nursery grounds. 

 But while things are being shaped to bring about atmospherical conditions 

 that will completely and permanently bar out all forms of insects inimical 

 to cultivated parts, I have to and do provide a treatment for vegitable pro- 

 ductions that have already been attacked, which will stamp out any disease 

 they may be subjected to and relieve their weakness. This treatment con- 

 sists in the scientific application of the invigorating force and curative 

 properties of electricity, coupled in some instances with the use of a cer- 

 tain chemical compound adapted to rid. the growing wood or vegetable 

 matter of its parasitic enemies and favour the benign influence of the 

 electrical power. ' 



That gardens, vineyards, orcbards, grain fields, etc., can be thoroughly 

 protected from the disastrous inroads of grass-hoppers, locusts, the codlin- 

 moth, the phylloxera, and every other form of insect pest by the agency of 

 fringes and intersecting belts of Eucalyptus globulus and otner more hardy 

 sorts of eucalypti properly laid out, and can be cleansed and fertilized by 

 the judicious use of electricity, with or without the aid of an emulsion, 

 such as I will herein describe hag been demonstrated to my entire satis- 

 faction after years of patient research and carefully conducted experiments. 

 There is produced as a result of the pungent emanations arising from 

 eucalypti surroundings a strong antiseptic atmosphere within which no in- 

 sect plague can or will exist whilst honey making bees thrive amazingly, 

 yielding an abundant supply of rich medicated honey. Such fringes and 

 belts are also believed to be the best possible substitute that can be pro- 

 vided for the natural barriers formerly afforded by forests, the indiscrim- 

 inate destruction of which, in connection with impoverished soil, is, in my 

 opinion, the real cause of destructive insect invasions and growth. They 

 also form beneficent shelter from the spread of hoar-frost and severe wind 

 storms, in addition to providing most desirable quarters for insectivorous 

 birds, and affording several other advantages of an economical and health 

 promoting nature. As to the effects producible by electricity in its various 

 states and rates of motion, I have come to the conclusion that an electrical 

 current conveyed by such simple means as are hereafter described may be 

 advantageously utilized as a fertilizer and insect destroyer. By acting on 

 the soil and the water thereby. raising their temperature a little higher than 

 that of the surrounding air will change their abnormal condition and en- 

 rich the earth's productiveness, impart new life and vigor to the growing 

 plant and annihilate every form of parasite thereon. No one need hesi- 

 tate in drawing upon the illimitable supply of this real vitiliziug and purify- 



