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found on the young tender leaves). He goes round with a light 

 bamboo-Jegged table, about 4 feet high, and with the aid of this he 

 can reach most of the affected twigs. 



Last winter I washed or rather scrubbed all my fruit trees with a 

 mixture consisting of lib. soap dissolved in 8 quarts of water, by 

 boiling, to which, when removed from the fire, was added i quart 

 of crude carbolic acid. 



This undoubtedly had a most excellent effect. The trees look 

 clean, and fresh, and healthy, and all eggs, larvae, etc., etc., were got 

 rid of. 



We are much troubled, too, with bark-lice, which tap most of the 

 trees. To such an extent is this sometimes done that the ground 

 below the tree looks as if it had been varnished. This pest, however, 

 is easily kept down in a garden as I think I once before told you. 

 They are always on the under-side of the branch, and so easily seen. 

 A cooly goes round and examines each tree, with a tin of kerosene 

 emulsion and a rag in his hand. When he sees the lice he rubs 

 them to death with his fingers. He then washes the place with the 

 wet rag, and any insect that may have escaped his fingers is killed 

 with the emulsion. 



I keep the emulsion in use right through the summer, and I used 

 to wash out my fowl house and to cleanse any dirty thing there may 

 be. 



I have a force pump, and a plentiful supply of London purple. 



We ought to grow as good fruit as any in California, in these 

 elevated valleys. The peaches I raise from imported trees could not 

 well be beaten, and all other fruits might well be grown." 



2. LOCUSTS AND ARSENIC (»). 

 Experience in Experiments. 



The Tnanda Division Agricultural Association (Victoria County, 

 Natal) at their last meeting authorised the Locust Committee to draw 

 up a report on the present aspect of the locust pest, recommending 

 such remedial measures as the experience of the division during the 

 past two years has shown to be most effective. The Committee 

 met on the 21st instant, and after a careful consideration of the 

 evidence before them, submit the following for general information. 



The Committee have information that in certain localities, princi- 

 pally along the immediate coast belts, there has been a large deposit 



(i) Reprint of a Report by Mr. LeonardAcutt, President of the Inanda Division Agricultural 

 Association, Victoria County, Natal. 



