AGRICULTURE. 15 



TO DESTROY HOUSE-FLIES. 



These troublesome little insects may be effectually 

 destroyed without the use of poison. — Take half a 

 spoonful of black pepper in powder, one tea-spoonful 

 of brown sugar, and one table-spoonful of cream; mix 

 them well together, and place them in the room on a 

 plate, where the flies are troublesome, and they will 

 soon disappear. 



REMEDY AGAINST BAD WATER. 



A highly respectable gentleman in Connecticut, who 

 used to visit Ohio yearly, gave me the following prescrip- 

 tion. Being from early life a water drinker, he applied 

 to the late Dr. Osborn, of Middletown, to give him a 

 substitute. The doctor told him to furnish himself with 

 a mixture, of equal proportions, of pulverised sugar and 

 ginger, and whenever he drank the bad water of the 

 west, to put in as much of the composition as suited his 

 taste, and he need never apprehend bad effects from a 

 free use of the water. 



PRESERVATION OF SEEDS. 



M. D'Arget has preserved corn, which had been in- 

 fested by weevils, for a considerable time by putting it 

 into vessels, previously filled with sulphurous acid. All 

 the weevils perished, and the corn ceased to suffer. In 

 this manner insects in seeds may not only be destroyed, 

 but their presence prevented. As it might be inconve- 

 nient to burn sulphur in the vessels to be filled with 

 sulphurous acid, we will state another method of re- 

 placing the acid, and obtaining the same results. All 

 that is necessary is, to powder the seeds well with flour 

 of sulphur, before they are put into the bottles or other 

 vessels; or after having put the seeds into a bottle the 

 sulphur may be added, and the whole well shaken to- 

 gether, so as to bring it in contact with all the seeds. 

 The presence of the sulphur will prevent entirely the 

 attacks of the insects. 



