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the skin in warm water for about an hour, then apply a coating of borax, 
saltpetre, and Glauber salts, 1 oz. of each dissolved in sufficient water to make 
athin paste. The following day give a coating of a mixture of 1 oz. of sal 
soda, 4-oz. of borax, and 2 oz. of hard soap. This mixture should be slightly 
heated, without allowing it to boil. After this, fold the skin together and 
leave in a warm place for twenty-four hours. ‘Then take 4 oz. of alum, 8 oz. of 
salt, and 2 oz. of saleratus; dissolve in hot water, and when cool soak the skin 
in it for twelve hours; wring out and hang up to dry. If the skin is not 
sufficiently soft after this, the soaking and drying have to be repeated two or 
three times. 
EXPERIENCE WITH BI-SULPHIDE OF CARBON, 
A CORRESPONDENT of the Journal of the Jamaica Agricultural Society says :— 
I notice in your issue of July in answer to several letters you recommended 
carbon bi-sulphide for the destruction of weevils. I have had considerable 
experience with the carbon, and with your permission I will give it for the 
benefit.of your many readers. ‘The carbon is an explosive, and care should be 
taken not to light a match near it. The explosion is not so bad, but it will 
burn everything saturated with the gas. The evaporation of the carbon bi- 
sulphide is downward, as it is heavier than air. It is the only remedy in my 
judgment to kill ants. It will penetrate through 12 inches of dirt in a second. 
ff you put a teaspoonful on the inner edge of a pot, say an 8-inch pot, it will 
kill all the ants in the pot and not injure the plant, provided you do not put it 
on the body of the plant, If you want to kill cutting ants, for a large bed it 
will take 1 gallon. Choose a time when the ants are in, then take a can and 
bend one side of it to form a spout, put an equal amount of carbon in each one 
of the holes or as near as you can. Then prepare yourself to jump. Strike a 
match and put it or throw it at one end of the outer holes and you will jump 
before you know it, and then you will think you have started an earthquake of 
your own, but there will be no damage except to the ants. When you jump, 
that is the last of the ants. I think the carbon bi-sulphide could be sold here 
for 2 dollars per gallon, or less by taking 5 gallons at a time. 
BUDDING THE MANGO. 
Tur Journal of the Jamaica Agricultural Society for October remarks :— 
“Budding the mango has been generally considered an impossibility, but this 
is a mistake, because it is done by experts in Florida, and it can be done by 
others when understood. ‘The secret lies in taking the buds from about the 
middle of the growing shoot where they are well developed, and yet not too 
tender—where the colour of the bark is just turning from green to purple— 
and at a time just prior to a vigorous stage or growth in the tree to be budded. 
The shield method has been used, but the ring or plate style would be better.” 
THE PIG’S NOSE. 
TE nose of the pig is an index of its nature and condition. The shape and 
texture show that it is designed for nuzzling, for rooting, and for overturning 
things, and this is “the nature of the brute” toperfection. The condition of 
the animal is in many ways shown in the nose. In the healthy pig the nose is 
moist, cool, and pink in colour. ‘To the touch it is elastic. In disease it 
changes in appearance, becoming pallid or purplish, dry, hot, and rigid, or else 
flabby. Many an experienced breeder can tell at a glance the general condition 
of a pig from the condition of its nose. When your swine grow listless, and 
do less nuzzling than usual, and seem to be dozing and sleeping more than 
usual, inspect their noses, and you are likely to find in them the indications of 
fever and other troubles.—Hurmer and Stockbreeder, 
