| 1 Aprin, 1899.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 271 
Take 20 lb. of resin, 6 lb. of caustic soda (70 per cent.), 3 pints of fish 
oil, water to make 80 gallons; place the resin, caustic soda, and 
fish oil in a large boiler with 20 gallons of water, and boil for 
83 hours; then add hot water slowly, and stir well till there are at 
least 40 gallons of hot solution; then add cold water to make up 
the total to 80 gallons. Never add cold water when cooking, or the 
resin will be precipitated, and it will be difficult to get it in solution. 
The above is the strength to use for citrus trees ; a winter wash for 
deciduous trees may be used one-half stronger, the total amount 
being made up to 54: gallons instead of 80 gallons. 
F. 
Sueur, Lite, anp Savr WASH. 
This is an all-round winter wash for all kinds of deciduous fruit trees, but 
is not used for citrus trees. It is both a fungicide and insecticide, being one 
of the best remedies for the San José Scale and the Mussel Scale of, the apple. 
Tt is made as follows :— 
Take 40 lb. of unslacked lime, 20 lb. of sulphur, 15 lb. of salt, and 
50 gallons of water. 
o mix, take 10 Jb..of lime, 20 Ib. of sulphur, and 20 gallons of water; ~ 
boil for not less than one hour and a-half, or until the sulphur is 
thoroughly dissolved, in a strong iron not a thin copper boiler ; 
when the mixture will be of a light amber colour. Slack 30 lb. 
of lime in a barrel with hot water, and when thoroughly slacked, but 
still boiling, add the 15 lb. salt; when this is dissolved the whole 
should be added to the lime and sulphur in the boiler, and the whole 
boiled for half-an-hour longer, when water, to make the whole up 
to 50 gallons, should be added. Strain through a wire-sieve, and keep 
well stirred whilst in use. 
As this mixture is very hard on the hands, use gloves when spraying, and 
have good bamboo exteusions fitted to the hose attached to the spray-pump, 
It is also hard on the pump and nozzles, so see that the pump is kept clean, 
and is never put away without being rinsed out with very hot water. 
G. 
Wuate-orn Soar ann Brack Lear Topacco Extract. 
Dissolve } lb. of whale-oil soap in 1 gallon of water; and add 1 to 2 fluid 
oz. of black leaf tobacco extract. A splendid wash for delicate plants, very 
efficacious in the case of Aphis and Thrips. 
H. 
WHateE-orn Soar ann Nicovrine. 
Dissolve + lb. of whale-oil soap in 1 gallon of water, and add 4 fluid oz. of 
nicotine. ‘This wash is used for the same purposes as the preceding one. 
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SULPHUR. 
This is one of the best remedies for the Rust Mite or Maori of the orange, 
and for Red Spider or other spinning mites that attack almonds, apples, plums, 
&c. It is also the best remedy for Oidium of the grape, pumpkin, melon, &c. 
The finer the sulphur the better, as the finer it is the more sulphur vapour it 
gives off, as it is not the sulphur but the sulphur vapour which is of value. 
Many good authorities consider that the best time to sulphur is from 10 a.m. 
to 4 p.m., instead of the early morning, the sulphur being applied by means of 
a bellows, or a specially constructed knapsack sulphurer. For Maori the 
sulphur should be applied when the oranges are about the size of marbles, as 
it is at this stage that the itsects do their damagé, though the results are not 
shown till the fruit ripens. ; 
