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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
THE CKESYLIC A.CI1> CO.'S 
S O A p» s 
AND SAPONACEOUS COMPOUNDS 
MANUFACTURED AND S O L 33 
UNDER A LICENSE, BY 
JAMES B XJ C H A N & C O . , 
190 Elizabeth Street, 2i~eic York, 
AND FOR SALE BY DRTJG-G-ISTS, GROCERS, SEEDSMEN AND DEALERS. 
The value of these compounds, and for winch 
Letters-Patent have been granted, is fully es- 
tablished as 
DISINFECTANTS, ANTISEPTICS, 
and Destroyers of Insect and Fun- 
gus Eife wherever found. 
Although the peculiar powers of this acid are 
of comparatively recent discovery, they are so 
marked and powerful as to have led at once to 
their general use, both in Europe and America. 
The difficulty at first experienced was, to 
form such compounds with the acid as should 
be convenient for use, permanent in their effects, 
and cheap enough to lead to their every day 
employment, in the 
Dwelling 52ou.se, the Hospital! and 
Jail, the Ship and the Railroad ■ 
Car, the Stable, the Sheep- 
fold and the Cow-house, 
the Field and Garden. 
It was found that this was best and almost 
solely attained by forming 
Soaps & Saponaeeons Compounds. 
Those offered for use in the 
Dwelling-house, include 
Laundry, Family and Soft Soaps. 
These are not only more powerfully detergent 
or cleansing than any others in use ; but 
completely disinfect everything washed with 
them, and . render woolens safe from the 
attacks of moths and other insects. Bedding 
and other clothing used by the sick, even 
from the most infectious diseases, as Small- 
pox, virulent fevers, &c, are completely disin- 
fected by its use; so that they may be immedi- 
ately used, and with entire safety, by the well 
in health. 
Tables, bedsteads, cupboards, floors, walls, 
sinks are purified, cleansed, and protected from 
house-flies, cockroaches, ants, and other insects. 
It ma}' be used on the psrson, even of chil- 
dren, protecting them greatly from infectious 
diseases, and from insect annoyances, scald- 
head, <fcc. 
The slight odor of Cresylic acid perceptible 
when the soap is used, is quickly dissipated by 
the air. 
In Jails, Hospitals. Barracks, on 
Ship-board, iu Crowded Tene- 
ments liable to typhoid and other ferers, the 
use of these soaps should be made obligatory. 
For the Stable, the Sheep-fold, the 
Cow-house, the Pig-pen, Poultry- 
house, &c. 
Compounds of the more crude Carbolic acid 
were employed. But, in this clear and warm 
climate it was found that there is a vitality and 
vigor in insect life which required the more ac- 
tive, yet less acrid Cresylic acid to overcome. 
The Slaell Bar Soap, for washing 
horses, cows, pigs, dogs, &c, to rid of and pro- 
tect them from vermin, flies, &c, is in a conve- 
nient and cheap form. Flies, which so in- 
cessantly torment horses and cattle in stables 
and dairies, will not disturb them, if washed 
over twice a week with this soap. Using it like 
any other bar soap ; but leave a light lather to 
dry on, rubbing it well iu. 
The Death to Screw-worm, is the 
best of all remedies for that pest of the Stock- 
breeder iu the South; and for washing galls, 
sores, whether mere scratches or of the most 
gangrenous and offensive character, for grease, 
cracked hoofs, &c, in horses ; mange in dogs, 
&c. It may be used on the person with entire 
safety ; and will cure any of the more ordi- 
nary diseases of the skin, as Ring-worm, 
&c. ; spread as a plaster, and protected from 
the air by a covering of oiled silk, &c. Remov- 
ing twice a day ; washing well, using the com- 
pound as a soap, and replacing the plaster. 
The Sheep-dip immediately cures scab in 
sheep, and destroys all vermin on these sensi- 
tive animals, and prevents their return. It is 
constantly asserted by those who use this Dip 
for their sheep, that the increase in quantity and 
improvement in the quality of the wool, is more 
than equal to the cost and trouble. 
The Foot-rot Ointment is a quick and 
infallible cure for that disease. 
The Plant Protector, if dissolved in 
water and occasionally sprinkled over trees and 
plants, will completely protect them from de- 
structive insects. 
Different persons in the South experimented 
with a solution of this compound on the cotton 
plant, infested by the caterpillar, so destructive 
to that plant; and state "that, although the 
worms already on the plant, and which could 
not be reached by sprinkling from a common 
watering-pot, lived and matured; not another 
egg was deposited on the plants thus treated." 
From these and experiences in Europe, it is in- 
ferred that trees, roses, grape-vines, and other 
plants, including wheat, threatened by the fly 
and midge, well syringed with this solution, 
would be protected from the deposit of the 
eggs of insects of any kind upon the plants or 
in the fruit 
Every experiment with watery and other 
mixtures or compounds, excepting the sapona- 
ceous, proved utter failures. If made strong 
enough to affect the insect, they seriously dam- 
aged the plant; and the effects, so far as they 
were obnoxious to the insect, were quickly dis- 
sipated. Not so with the soap mixtures. The 
effect continues for weeks, even en plants in the 
open air. 
A very weak solution used m the ordinary 
syringing of plant houses, would entirely pre- 
vent insects. 
"Wheat washed in a solution of the Pro- 
tector, before being sown, is pronounced safe 
from Smut — a fungus, similar in its origin 
to the Mildew on the Grape. 
If the stems and limbs of trees and plants, in- 
fested by any of the species of Scale or M Ter- 
rapin Bug," arc coated with a mixture of a 
creamy solution of the Protectors, and the 
Cresylic Acid Co.'s Granulated 
Powder, laid on with a brush, the insect 
could no longer exist. 
Rabbits, Mice, Squirrels, &c, will not 
touch young trees which have had a cloth, 
saturated with the compound, rubbed over the 
stem. "Which may be done very quickly with 
a rag in each hand. 
And the Cutting-Ant cf "Western Texas 
will not ascend a tree, around which a strip of 
sheep-skin is tied, and occasionally wetted with 
a solution of this compound. 
During the summer months, in the warmer 
parts of this continent, it is almost impossible 
to preserve Hides from being eaten by certain 
worms and hard-shelied bugs. Dealers and 
others use a compound known as "Hide poi- 
son " ; dangerous in the extreme, if not care- 
fully handled. 
The Cresylic Acid Company's 
HIDE PRESERVER 
is even more effective, being at same time a 
powerful antiseptic, is perfectly safe to use, and 
costs much less. 
All of these compounds are harmless to ani- 
mal life, and may be handled with entire safety. 
