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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[May, 
Tffl GREAT PURIFIER. 
CRESYLIC SOAP 
Saponaceous Compounds. 
Disinfectant, Insect Destroyer, Pre- 
ventive of Fungus, etc. 
Frequent mention haa been made In the columns of the 
American Agriculturist of Cresylic Compounds, na belnp 
valuable for destroying Insects on animals and plants, and 
for other purposes. For some months past we have been 
Investigating the merits of these preparations, with the 
following results. 
Cresylic Acid Is extracted from pas-tar, to which It gives 
the peculiar odor perceived on burning the tar. It lias been 
used to n limited extent by chemists and physicians, for va- 
rious purposes, and their experiments have shown it to pos- 
sess remarkable properties as a disinfectant, and In destroy- 
ing insect life and fungus growth. In its ordinary form it 
could not be readily applied, and hence was not available 
for common use. About two years since, Messrs. JAMES 
BUCIIAN & CO., of New York, well-known as extensive 
manufacturers of family soaps, conceived the Idea of com 
bluing this acid in saponaceous compounds. By long aud 
careful experimenting, they succeeded in producing soaps 
In various forms, possessing the active properties of this 
acid, and thus bringing it within the reach of all classes. 
These compounds have been patented. 
We have watched with great Interest the results of vari- 
ous applications of these compounds, knowing that if sue 
cessful, they would be of incalculable benefit to the commu- 
nity. By tests made under our own supervision, and tho re- 
ports of careful observers, we believe it to bo established 
that these Cresylic Compounds are 
1st. Complete Disinfectants.— They not only re- 
move all noxious odois from Binks, privies, stables, etc., but 
will destroy nil infection, in clothing, rooms, etc., washed 
with their solution. Thus, contagion from Small Pox, 
Typhufl Fever, Cholera, and other diseases, may be effectu- 
ally prevented. They are used in the New York and other 
Hospitals for these purposes. 
3il. Insect Destroyers.— An animal washed with 
Cresylic Soap will be entirely freed from all vermin. It 
will destroy ticks on sheep, fleas ou dogs, lice on cattle or 
poultry, roaches, ante, bedbugs, etc., In rooms. It repels 
flies from animals, and thus Is especially useful in case o( 
wounds or sores from any cause. 
So far as tried, it has been efficacious in repelling insects 
from plants. TVodesiroto havo it more thoroughly tested 
for this purpose, and reports to bo made. We believe it wlW 
free plants from Aphides, bark lice, slugs, bugs, caterpillars, 
striped bugs, curculio, and tho wholo host of minute but 
powerful enemies in the garden and fruit yard. 
3d. Preventive of Fungus Growth.— On this 
point we ask for further experiment. "We feel confident this 
soap, properly applied, will prevent smut lu wheat, mildew 
on vines, and similar parasitic growth, and trust that exper- 
imenters will furnish tho result of their trials. 
4th. Cleaning Sores, etfe.— For washing ulcers and 
other foul sores, and preventing gangrene in wounds, etc., 
Cresylic Soap is, we believe, unequal ed. We know also that 
It haa been successful wherever used, for foot rot in sheep, 
and mange, itch, ring-worm, aud other skin diseases, 
From numerous RECOMMENDATIONS of 
Cresylic Compounds, the following arc 
selected as being specially valuable. 
FrvE Points IIoosk of Industry, 155 Worth St. 
New York, Nov. 15, 1867. 
Messrs. BrcnAN & Co.— Gentletnen— Some months since 
we purchased a large building which had been used as a 
tenement establishment for thirteen years, and was occupied 
by some ninety families. We tore away partitions, turning 
between three and four hundred rooms into less than one 
hundred. We found tho walls and floors perfectly infested 
witli vermin. We used freely in cleansing the CRESYLIC 
SOAPS, manufactured by your firm, and with the very bent 
results, as the bugs, etc., have entirely disappeared. We 
propose to continue its use in cleaning our dormitories, hop- 
ing; then to keen clear of a plague so common to all house- 
keepers In cities. S. B. HALLIDAV, Supt. 
Brooklyn, November, 1367. 
M. C. Edet, Agent for Sale of James Buchah & Co'a, 
Cresylic Soaps, etc.— Dear Sir— We have Lad the Cresylic 
Soap used in the Raymond Street Jail and County Court, 
House, and in washing and cleansing prisoners' clothing 
cells, etc. ; aud we are so much pleased with its cleaning 
disinfecting and Insect-destroying effects, that we not only 
continue its use in above places, but recommend that it 
should be generally used for those purposes. 
JOHN L. RYDER, ) Committee on Jails 
STEPHEN CLARK, V of Supervisors of 
D. S. VOORHIES, ) Kings County, N.Y. 
Corpus Chbisti, Texas, March 15. 1S68. 
Messrs. James Buciian & Co.— Gentlemen : Your Sheep 
Dip Is wonderful In its effects. I have dipped 3,150 head 
with nine months* fleeces on their backs. It Is now three 
weeks since, and no scratching as yet. Your Dip is far su- 
perior to tobacco, not so disagreeable or unpleasant, much 
less trouble and more permanent. 
I have used it on horses when diseased with a species of 
mange or Itch, and it has the same good effect as on sheep. 
F. W. SHAEFFER. 
On the nse of disinfectants, the following is the testimony 
of Dr. Elisha Harris, Registrar of the Metropolitan Board 
of Health, New York City : 
"The Disinfecting and Antiseptio Power of Good 
Carbolic Acid* is so Great that one Part of it to 
Fifty or One Hundred Parts is Sufficient for Ordi- 
nary Purposes." 
* CRESYLIC ACID Is the active property of Carbolic 
Aeid. 
Desiring that our readers should be benefited by the ex- 
tended Introduction of what we believe tobeso valuable, we 
havo established a general agency for the sale of these 
compounds, at our branch office. No. 41 Park Row, and are 
prepared to fill orders at wholesale or retail, at the follow* 
lng prices. 
Sheep Dip, for Curing Scab and •Destroying Insects 
on Sheep. 
5 ft Canisters $1 .25 
10 " " 2.25 
50 " Kess 10.00 
200 " Bbls 35.00 
Proportions are 1 lb Dip to 5 gallons water for 5 to 10 Sheep, 
It they are very large and heavily Jleeced. For ordinary 
sized animals, or those recently shorn, 1 lb Dip will take 8 
to 10 gallons water. The solution must be graded according 
to the age and condlt Ion of the animal. 
Plant Protector.— In solution for destroying and re- 
pelling insects from Trees or Plants. 
In 1 ft. Canisters, @50 cts.; In 3 ft. Canisters, @ $1.00 ; larger 
packages same price as Sheep Dip. See above. 
Cresylic Ointment, for Cure of Foot Rot, &c. In 
BOlutlon for killing Insects, &c, on stock. In 3 lb Canisters, $1, 
Carbolic Disinfecting Soap.— In tablets for con- 
venient use in washing Horses, Dogs, Pigs, &c, destroying 
Insects of all kinds, protecting from Flics, curative of Sores, 
Scratches, and Chafes of all kinds. In boxes, 3 dozen tablets, 
$3.60 ; in boxes of 1 ft bars, 10 each, $1.00. / 
Cresylic No. 1 Sonp.— In Bars. For all common uses 
in the House and Laundry ; 24 lb boxes, 13 cts. per lb; 60 ft 
boxes, 12>£ cts. per ft. 
Cresylic Laundry Soap.— A finer Soap, for the 
Laundry, and for the Bath, etc.; 60 ft boxes, 14 cts. per ft. 
24 ft boxes, and In 10 paper boxes containing 6 lbs. each, 
packed iu a case, 15 cts. per ft. Address orders to 
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Land to be Drained ; How Drains Act ; now to 
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