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tion and application are described as follows : 'The contents 

 of a tube are taken out, to which is added a small quantity of 

 sugar, and the whole well mixed together. This is dissolved 

 in about a quart of water, which has previously been boiled 

 and allowed to cool. A few pieces of cork, steeped in boiling 

 water and cooled, are floated in the mixture. The water co- 

 vered with a piece of paper and allowed to stand during the 

 day in a warm corner until fungus is seen to be growing 

 around the pieces of cork. The preparation being now ready, 

 some locusts are caught, dipped into the fungus and allowed 

 to rejoin the swarm ; or some of the swarm are confined in a 

 box which contains a favourite food moistened with the fun- 

 gus, allowed to consume it and then to return to the others. 

 Another and apparently more deadly way of using the fungus 

 is to spread it over the affected parts where the locusts alight 

 to feed, the damper the ground the better.' Dr. Eddington 

 is said to have destroyed 95 per cent, of locusts in one year 

 by this process in Buluwayo. We hope that this fungus will 

 lind its way out to India, to free her lands, especially the fields 

 and orchards of the locust pests, which are so common here. " 



1.226. The Agriculture Department of the N. W. P. and 

 Oudh have got this fungus out for experiment, but with what 

 result is not yet known. 



1.227. It may be mentioned here that Mahomedans catch 

 locusts for food and even preserve them for this purpose as 

 they regard it in the light of a holy food from Mecca. Des- 

 sicated locusts may be tinned and exported to Europe where 

 they are prized as food for insectivorous cage birds and game 

 birds. 



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