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till the sulphur is quite dissolved. The boiling will take an hour 
or so and the liquid will turn amber colour. Then add the salt 
' previously dissolved in } the water and boil half an hour longer. 
Add enough water to make 60 gallons, stirring all the time, Strain 
through a cheese-cloth sack. Use coarse nozzle, and be careful of 
hands. An iron tank is used, and not a copper boiler. A steam 
jet can be used instead of boiling over fire, and in that case a wooden 
tub will do. " 
This formula gives good results against San Jose scale, 
Excess of lime is advisable, as otherwise, although equal proportions 
of lime and of sulphur combine entirely, the liquid is very soluble 
and is readily washed by drenching rain. Besides, a lime crust 
helps in preventing young scales escaping. 
No. 7.—Topacco DEcoction. 
Home Grown Tobacco, ose and Stem or 
Tobacco Waste Ub. 
Water ee lus so ue .. 38 to 4 gals. 
Soft Soap... ee nit ots we Fb. 
The tobacco is placed in a bag, and placed under boiling water 
with the soap added and boiled for an hour or soaked for several 
days. Lift the sack, drain. If large quantities are made, add 
sufficient water to the strong decoction. Pack the residual tobacco 
round the base of the tree to destroy any aphides on the roots. 
Concentrated nicotine solutions are sold in commerce under 
the name Black Leaf No. 40, to which cold water is added as 
directed. 
Tobacco Dust and Lime is very useful against slugs and snails, 
cabbage moth, etc. Mix in the proportion of 1 to 4 and dust the 
mixture over the plants early in the morning when the dew is on 
the leaves. One kerosene tin full of the mixture will do 400 cabbage 
plants. 
No. 8.—Evucatyrtus Drcocrtion. 
Some people object to poisonous mineral solutions to trees 
or vines. 
Decoctions of Eucalyptus, Blue Gum leaves bruised when 
freshly gathered, are soaked in tepid water, llb. to 1 gallon, then 
sprayed on the tree, vine or vegetable that bugs have taken pos- 
session of. The vine hopper, the stink-bvg on pumpkin and melon 
vines, the spotted diabrotica, the cut worm and all that tribe and 
ilk will abandon any foliage where the spray is used ; it is sticky 
stuff, and adheres quickly. 
