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Hunter at " Friends," gives excellent results and is to be strongly 
recommended. Screens of canvas, of the shape best suited to tbe vege- 
tation to be protected, to be covered with tar and brushed up against or 
in the way of the young locusts. When the tar is covered over with the 
young ones, a fresh layer to be laid over it. Screens of convenient size 
to be used, with handles by which they can be easily manipulated — 
from 4 to 6 feet in length, not counting the handles, and from 2 to 4 
feet in width. 
As both young and adult locusts tend to congregate about their food 
plants which fall on the ground, heaps of cassava and maize may be 
made in the fields and plantations, and these heaps be treated with the 
screens or be surrounded with fuel and burnt when covered by locusts, 
and these may be usefully sprinkled with a mixture of one part arsenic 
by weight, 1 of sugar or molasses, and 5 of bran, made to a thin paste 
with water. This poison which was used in the vineyards of the United 
States for locusts ought to be useful for the winged insefts. 
To supplement methods, it seems advisable for the Government to 
offer a reward of 2s. a gallon for young locusts and eggs, separately or 
mixed, and 6d. a gallon for the winged forms, to be paid by the managers 
of estates such as Mara, Ma Retraite, Highbury, Friends, Providence, 
Rose Hall, and Adelphi on the authority of the State. 
Signed, W. RUSSELL, 
JOHN J. QUELCH. 
In the course of a short conversation on the subject, Mr. 
Kelly mentioned having received a letter from Pin. 
Friends, Berbice, telling him that the labourers were now 
industriously engaged in the locust collection, and that 
$240 had been paid to them within two or three days, and 
that about $800 would be required for the current week's 
collection. The President said that that amount of 
money represented the collection of i.,6oo gallons of 
locusts, — which would give the public some idea of the 
great extent of the pest. 
Mr. Kirke, the Vice-President, narrated his experience 
of locusts in the north-west provinces of India, where they 
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