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A MERICAN AGRIOPLTUBIST. 
the cbesyeio acid CO.’S 
s o .A. s 
and saponaceous compounds. 
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UNDER A LICENSE, BY 
JAMES BUCHAN & CO., 
190 Mir^abeth Street, New York, 
FOR SALE BY DRUGG-ISTS, GROCERS, SEEDSMEN AND DEALERS. 
The value of these compounds, and for which 
Letters-Patent have been granted, is fully es¬ 
tablished as 
©ISIMFECTAMTS, AMTISEFTICS, 
and I>estr®yers ©f Izssect and Fun- 
g’it§ Fife wherever found. 
Although the peculiar powers of this acid ar® 
of comparatively recent discoveiy, they are so 
marked and powerful as to have led at once to 
their general use, both in Europe and America. 
The dilnculty at first experienced wms, 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 
D-welllng ll©iise, tlic Hospital and 
Jail, tlic Slaip and tlie Hailpoad 
Car, tiae Stable, tlae Siieep- 
foM and tiae Co-^^-taonse, 
tlae Field and CJarden. 
It was found that this was best and almost 
solely attained by forming 
§oap§ Sc Sapomaceoaas Compouaads. 
Those offered for use in the 
H’weSling-laoaase, include 
Faniidry, Family and Soft Soaps. 
Those are not only more powerfully detergent 
or cleansing than any others in use; but 
completely disinfect everything washed 'udth 
them, and render "umolens 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 may be used on the parson, even of chil¬ 
dren, protecting them greatly from infectious 
diseases, and from insect annoyances, scald- 
head, &c. 
The slight odor of Cresyiic acid perceptible 
when the soap is used, is quickly dissipated by 
the air. 
In Ja.ils, Hospitals, Marracks, on 
Ship'board, in Crowded Tene- 
sisents liable to typhoid and other fevers, the 
use of these soaps should he made obligat-ory. 
For the IStable, tlie Sbeep-fold, the 
Cow-laoMse, the Pig-pen, Poiiitry- 
liouse, &c. 
Compounds of the more-crude Carbolic acid 
were employed. But, in this clear and warm 
climate it was found tliat there is a vitality and 
vigor in insect life which required the more ac¬ 
tive, yet less acrid Cresyiic acid to overcome. 
The Hiacls. Bar Soap, for washing 
horses, co'ws, 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 wmek with this soap. Using it like 
any other bar soap ; but leave a light lather to 
dry on, rubbing it 'umll in. 
The Heatli to Screw-worm^ is the 
best of all remedies for that pest of the Stock¬ 
breeder in the South; and for wasliing 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 -ivith entire 
safety; and will cure any of the more ordi¬ 
nary diseases of the skin, as Hing-worm, 
&c.; spread as a plaster, and protected from 
the air by a covering of oiled silk, &o. Remov¬ 
ing tw'ice a day; 'washing Avell, using the com¬ 
pound as a soap, and replacing the plaster. 
The Slaeep-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 
■Rmter and occasionally sprinkled over trees and 
plants, will completely protect them from de¬ 
structive insects. 
Different persons in the South experimented 
wdth a solution of this compound on the cotton 
plant, infested by the caterpillar, so destructive 
to that plant; and state ‘‘that, althongh the 
■u'orms already on the plant, and which could 
net 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 'uflieat, threatened by the fly 
and midge, well syringed with this solution, 
■would he protected from the deposit of the 
eggs of insects of any kind upon the plants or 
in the fruit. 
Every experiment with watery and otlicr 
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 wdth the soap mixtures. The 
effect continues for weeks, even on plants in the 
open air. 
A very w^eak solution used m the ordinary 
syringing of plant houses, would entirely pre¬ 
vent insects. 
Wheat wmshed in a solution of the Pro¬ 
tector, before being so-nm, 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 “ Ter¬ 
rapin Bug,” are coated 'with a mixture of a 
creamy solution of tlie Protectors, and the 
Cresyiic 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 liave had a cloth, 
saturated with the compound, rubbed over the 
stem. Which may be done very quicklj'- ■until 
a rag in each hand. 
And the Cutting-Ant of Western Texas 
will not ascend a tree, around which a strip of 
sheep-skin is tied, and occasionally 'svetted with 
a solution of tins compound. 
During the summer months, in the ■warmer 
parts of this continent, it is almost impossible 
to preserve Hides from being eaten by certain 
Avorms and liard-shelied bugs. Dealers and 
others use a compound known as “Hide poi¬ 
son”; dangerous in the extreme, if uot care¬ 
fully handled. 
The Cresyiic 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 bandied with entire safety. 
