149 
Extract from Annual Beports of the Experimental Farms at BHAD- 
GAON in Kna'wpksn, and HYDERABAD in SIND, for year ending 
31st March 1889, 
n pursuance of Government Resolution No. 6093, dated 9th Se 
tember 1887, Revenue Department, exper iments were made to test the 
efficacy of CS, as a preservative of grain from the attack of YS 
and upon which a separate i ph was submitted in August last. The 
ia ceri were continued this 
ary of the results of the. EET, is given below ;— : 
(a) That soft varieties of grain, such as soft wheats and jowári, are 
vec attacke d with weevils than hard varieties, as 
bájri, &e. 
(5.) Tin CS, is a per fect preservative against the attack of weevils 
ng 
(e.) The ide ‘of CS, lasts in cases not hermetically closed six 
weirs? e" er which period a fresh charge of the re-agent is 
requir te 
(d.) That e even in samples which have been attacked with weevils NY 
e of CS, is immediately felt, the weevils disappearing 
(e.) That CS, doos no harm to grain as regards its colour, smell, An 
cooking erties, &c. ix 
(f) m the ant property of CS, need in no way. interfere. p 
pi 
vith it: roduction into Indian villages, as, unlike arsenic, 
i trong, uid repugnant smell will act as a sufficient safe- — vs 
storehouse of grain for the last 19 years, evil Vin grind 
This proves beyond doubt that wheat is mos 
weevils i in city ual where a et — “of it is stored 
ear before being shipped to Eur ; 
(A.) It is is y Selanne fair to conclude that outta the interior of the 
godowns with poisonous paints, and charging the grain n with : 
grain) will reduce the damage caused by weevils to wheat and 
other grains to a considerable extent. 
CLII.—COLOMBIAN INDIA-RUBBER. 
(Sapium biglandulosum, Muell. Arg.) A 
The United States of Colombia have long been recognised as idl 
sidiary source of india-rubber. Colombian robbie e has been gener 
known in commerce from the place of export as * en 
been supposed to be the produce of a species of Castilla, i 
to some extent have been actually the case. larger 
the export found its way to 2 get States. EM 
In the following correspondence n, form : 
charge of the Cinchona plantations, J amaica, Mie settled at Bogota, 
