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A fourth part of the lime is slaked and boiled for 2 or 3 hours 

 with the sulphur in 25 seers of water. The remainder of the 

 lime is then slaked and added with the salt to the hot mixture, 

 The whole is boiled for another half hour or an hour and dilut- 

 ed to 400 seers. The fluid is applied lukewarm when the 

 plants are not in active growth. 



1.158. When animals are troubled with ecto-parasites, 

 such as tick, lice, fleas, itch mite &c , they are dipped in a 

 reservoir containing an insecticidal solution. The following 

 mixture may be used, as a cattle dip :-- 



i YT, Ibs. of. arsenic 



3 Ibs. of soda. 



3 Ibs, of soap. 

 100 gallons of water. 



Kerosine emulsion, i.e., kerosine oil, shaken up with soap 

 solution, or with butter-milk (ghol) and diluted with 100 

 times as much water, may be also rubbed into the skin of 

 animals suffering from ecto-parasites. Kerosine emulsion 

 is a very potent remedy against all soft bodied insects. 



1.159. Of patent insecticides, may be mentioned "Niquas," 

 which has been favourably reported upon by Mr. P. Lancaster, 

 Secretary to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of 

 India. While killing insect pests of all kinds, it has no in- 

 jurious effect on leaves of plants, such as is produced by 

 kerosine emulsion and ordinary arsenical mixtures. One 

 gallon of Niquas can be mixed up with 80 to 100 gallons of 

 water, and the solution applied with a spray-pump. The price 

 is Rs. 5 per gallon. The manufacturers are Messrs. Corry 

 and Co., Bonded Chemical Works, Shad Thames, London. 



1.160. Fungicides. -The Bordeaux mixture is the stand- 

 ard fungicide, but as it combines well with arsenical poisons, 

 and as a combined spray of Bordeaux mixture with an arsenical 

 poison, such as Sankhya, London Purple, or Paris Green, acts 

 both as an insecticide and as a fungicide, the combined mix- 

 ture may be used when there is any occasion for it. i lb. 



