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remain for twenty-four hours with the diluent in 

 an air-tight vessel. 



Again, the ant-tormented Englishman who can 

 procure " Little's Chemical Fluid" might be told 

 that when a portion of one of the yards at the 

 sheep quarantine, Indooroopilly, was attacked and 

 partially eaten away by the white ant, the quaran-. 

 tine keeper poured a bucketful of liquid from the 

 sheep dip on one of the posts, and, noticing that 

 the ants drop dead immediately on coming in 

 contact with the liquid, he applied it to all the 

 posts and rails that had been attacked. After 

 a considerable number of weeks had elapsed, 

 the fencing was thoroughly examined and found 

 perfectly free from the ants. The liquid used in 

 the dip was Little's Chemical Fluid, mixed in 

 water in the proportion of one of the fluid to 100 

 parts of water. The price of the fluid, wholesale, 

 is only 8s. 6d. per gallon, so that if it is found 

 to be effective, there can scarcely be found a 

 cheaper remedy. 



Grasshoppers amuse themselves by shearing off 

 the young shoots and buds ; while the coffee mite 

 (A cants Coffece), closely allied to the " red spider" 

 of Europe, though hardly perceptible to the naked 

 eye, yet withers the foliage of whole hill sides at a 

 time. " It feeds on the upper side of the leaves, 

 where, amogst the live insects, empty skins and 

 minute red globules are found in plenty. These 

 globules are fixed by a style to the leaf, and are 



