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DIRECTIONS 



For forming a Liquid to prevent and remove insects 

 and mildew from fruit trees ; and how to com- 

 pose a Powder to destroy the scale-like insect on 

 pines. 



About the beginning of iVIarch, get three tubs of 

 one hogshead each. Let them be placed near where 

 soft water can be conveniently had. Put into the 

 first tub two pecks of hard lime fresh from the kiln, 

 and fill up with water : let it stand for two or three 

 days, stirring it occasionally. At the end of that 

 time, and when the lime has subsided to the bottom, 

 draw off the clear ley, and put it into the second 

 tub, and immediately fill up the first tub again with 

 water. When this last has stood twenty-four hours, 

 it may be drawn off, and added to that in the second 

 tub. This must be ..repeated, until there is one 

 hogshead of clear lime-water. To this must be 

 added the following ingredients ; viz, four pounds of 

 flour of sulphur, and four pints of tobacco liquor, 

 which may be purchased of the tobacconist. These 

 ingredients being put into the second tub with the 

 clear lime-water, may stand for a day or two, and 

 then be drawn clear off into the third tub, when it 

 is ready for use. When more is wanted, the same 

 process must be repeated, adding a peck of fresh 

 lime to the first tub on every repetition. 



