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each • though this is not as a rule necessary. The best time 

 to attack the ants is in the evening. 



Care must be taken not to put a light near the bisulphide 

 of carbon, or to let it come in contact with hot metal, as it is 

 highly inflammable. It must also be remembered that the 

 fumes from the liquid are poisonous. 



Trapping, largely employed for wireworms, consists in 

 placing pieces of carrot, mangold, or turnips in the ground, 

 and taking them up every few days to collect the wireworms 

 feeding on the bait. Millipedes may also be caught in this 

 way, but for them large, hollow, more or less rotten, roots 

 should form the bait. It has also been found that the small 

 millipedes [ Jtilus pulchellus) may be caught in numbers by 

 placing on the ground cabbage leaves soaked in a solution 

 of Paris green (i oz. to a gallon of water) ; the millipedes come 

 to the surface at night, and feed upon the poisoned leaves. 



Peat moss litter manure is always attractive to millipedes 

 and other pests, and should be avoided. Lime, if applied in 

 proper quantity, seems to check the increase of millipedes, 

 but has no effect upon wireworms. 



Adulteration of Food in Scotland 



According to the seventh annual Report of the Local 

 Government Board for Scotland (Cd. 105 1) the number of 

 samples examined under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 

 during the year ended 30th September, 1901, on behalf of 

 Local Authorities, was 5,493, of which 650, or n*8 per cent., 

 were found to be adulterated. 



Prosecutions were instituted in respect of 330 of the 650 

 samples reported to be adulterated. In 221 cases convictions 

 were obtained ; in 66 the charges were withdrawn ; and 

 in 43 there was no conviction. Penalties were imposed 

 in 216 out of the 221 convictions; in the other 5 the 

 vendors were admonished. The penalties amounted to 

 ,£641 3s. 8d., and, in addition, the offenders were found liable 

 in costs amounting to ^50 14s. 4<i., the penalties and costs 

 together being ^691 18s., or, on an average, 2s. 7d. for 



