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Itesin Compound is known to be very effective 
ngaiiist scale insects. One of the best formulas is : 
Caustic soda, 1 lb.; resin, 5 lb.: water, 23 gallons. 
Two ounces of Paris green may be added to 
this when used. 
Sal Ammoniac (chloride of ammonia), at the 
rate of | to 1 oz. per gallon of water, is a cheap 
and efficacious spray against red scale. 
Tobacco is one of the safest and most valuable 
inseclicides, and may be applied in several woys, 
either as a fine dry powder against slugs and aphis, 
or as a decoction of 3 to 4 gallons of water to 1 lb. 
of tobacco, or in fumes when burnt in the 
greenhouse. 
Carbolic Acid, especially in its crude state, is a 
valuable insecticide as an emulsion made by 
mixing one quart soft soap, or about 1 lb. of hard 
soap dissolved in two gallons of boiling water, and 
then adding 1 lb. crude carbolic acid, and, 
applied with a cloth or a brush, it is efficacious 
in preventing the attack of tree borers. It must 
not in that state be applied to the foliage. 
Bi-Sulphide of Carbon, a vei-y volatile fluid, tlie 
fumss of which are destructive to all animal life, 
is used for killing insects undei'ground ; this is 
done when the plant is dormant, by boring a hole 
into the ground and pouring in a little carbon bi- 
sulphide and kerosene mixed. It is highly 
inflammable. 
Coal Tar is excellent to drive infects away 
or entrap them. 
Sot Water, at a temperature of about 125 
degrees Fahr., is very eflicacious for killing plant 
lice. Amongst other substances which are used 
against insects must also be mentioned lirae and 
gas lime, quafsia chips, kainit, fir-tree oil, sul- 
phate of copper. 
Natural Checks. — Although economic entomolo- 
gists have already tested many valuable insecti- 
cides, and so compounded them that they kill 
insects but leave plants uninjured, jet there is, in 
keeping noxious insects in check, even more 
efficacious allies than the sprny pump and the 
insecticidal mixtures. 
All insects, in juiious or beneficial, have many 
natural enemies of their own to contend with. 
Some are of a higher order in the scale of animal 
classification, such as lizards, frogs, and other 
reptiles ; birds, moles, &c. Others, more uumerou:-, 
belong to the insect world itself. 
Amongst these, some which attack noxi3us 
insect pests from the outside, and either devour 
them or suck their vital juices are called predaceous 
insects, e.g., ladybirds, spiders, soldier bug, black 
ground beetle. 
Others, called parasitic insects, differ from the 
predaceous ones, in so far as they live inside the 
bodies of their victims, ond ultimately kill them. 
Amongst these parasiticinsects tlie morenumerous 
are ichneumon wasps, which entomologists classify 
amongst the hymenopterous, or four-wing flies. 
Another class of flies, with only two wings, and 
for that reason known as dipterous insects, con- 
tribute largely to the ranks of insect parasites, 
But even those parasites are frequently subject 
to the attack of still smaller parasites, which 
prove as fatal to them as they did to their 
iusect hosts. The first of these parasites are, for 
that reason, known as primary parasities, to 
differentiate them from the second, called secon- 
dary parasites. When introducing parasities into 
an orchard or a garden, tlierefore, it is of the 
greatest importance that we should have a clear 
idea whether we are introducing an ally which 
will prove beneficial, or whether we will add to 
the list of our pest enemies another insect which 
will prove mischievous. Such a work is better 
left in the hands of experienced people, and may 
prove a dangerous tool in those of the tyro garden er. 
Besides insect parasites, injurious insects are 
also attacked by even more minuscule foes. These 
are germs of contagious disease?, which, at ti mes 
stop an insect plague with remarkable suddenness. 
These germs are of two orders: some bacterial 
and inward, e-g., green potato and tomato cater- 
pillars; others, superficial, cover their victims with 
silk-like threads, and belong to the mould family, 
e.g., the African locust fungus — the house-fly 
fungus. — Journal Agriculture West. Australia, 
POULTRY NOTES. 
INDIAN GAME. 
Indian Game are good table fowls, but as layers 
they are not the equal of many other breeds; their 
large brown eggs, however, are very good ; the 
hens make excellent sitters, and the chicks are 
very hardy. So this breed is more suitable for 
gentlemen who do not mind feeding and breeding 
for the luxury of a bird that grows an abundance 
of choice breast noeat of delicious flavor and grain, 
than for farmers who need strains for egg produc- 
tion. The Indian Game, however, is a valual)le 
bird for crossing ; the Indian Game Dorking cross 
being the most fancied. I have had splendid 
results from crossing Indian Game with Wyandottes, 
Langshans and light Brahmas. The last takes 
longer to mature, but you get a heavier bird, and 
a fine large breast to cut at if the birds have been 
mated judiciously. 
SCHEDULE FOB JUDGING INDIAN GAME. 
CHARACTERISTICS OF COCK. 
Head and Neck. — Head rather long and stout, 
denoting strength, slightly heavy browed, but 
not beetling or scowling. Skull fairly broad. 
Neck, nice medium length and nicely arched. 
JBeak. — lellow striped, with horn color, extra 
strong and a trifle curved, stout at base, giving 
the head powerful appearance. 
Face. — Smooth and fine in texture, throat and 
face being dotted with email feathers. 
Comb, — If undubbed, pea or triple, small, ond 
well set on the head. 
Ear Lobes and JTaW/es.— Rather small and of 
a rich bright red in color. 
jEt/es.— Pearl or yellow, bright and full in 
expression. 
lfflcA:/e,— Short, but sufficient to cover the base 
of the neck, but not flowing ovet the shoulders* 
General Shape, — Body, round, muscular and 
stout, wide at slioulders, with wing butts showing 
prominent, body tapering towards the tail. 
Back, — Broad and flat, but not hollow between 
the shoulder-blades, 
