drums" and cyanide-bottles. 



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After all, I like nothing so well as working two or three large 

 cyanide bottles in this manner : Get some 6oz. or 8oz. bottles, 

 with as large mouths as possible — a confectioner's small and 

 strong glass jar is about as good a thing as you can get. To 

 this have a cork, cut as tightly as possible, sloping outwards 

 above the bottle some little distance, to afford a good grip. Fill 

 with cyanide as before directed, putting in enough to make the 

 bottles work quickly. When you see one of the restless hover- 

 ing kind of insects at your sugar, aim at him stealthily, as it 

 were, with the mouth of your bottle, and when near enough 



Fig. 54.— Sugaring Drum. 



rapidly close the mouth over him — ten to one he flies to the 

 light, and with a little management you can contrive to get the 

 bottle recorked. Let him remain in the bottle until stupefied, 

 meanwhile using another bottle. "When this is tenanted and the 

 insect drops, gently shake him into the first bottle, using the 

 last to capture the next insect, and so on. By using three 

 bottles you can always have one disengaged, and the bottled 

 insects can thus be allowed to remain a sufficient time to go dead 

 before pinning. 



Many insects sit very quietly at the sugar, but some few have 



