Tv. QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Maz. 1900. 
“THE DISEASES IN PLANTS ACT OF 1896.” 
Department of Agriculture: 
E Brisbane, 19th Ji anuary, 1899, 
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I IS Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pu ‘| 
of the provisions of “ The Diseases in Plants Act of 1896,” has been pleased 
the following further Regulations. J. V. OHATAW. AY. 
THE FUMIGATION OF FRUIT FOR EXPORT. 
1. Any one who wishes to erect a chamber or building for the fumigating of fruit 
to give notice to the Under Secretary for Agriculture, who will take steps to see that 
or building is properly constructed. ; be give? 
2. When it is required to fumigate fruit for export, twenty-four hours’ notice zs notices, 
to the said Under Secretary or such other officer as may be duly authorised to accept suc ghorised 
3. The operation of fumigating must be conducted under the control of an officer aU 
‘by the Minister for Agriculture. ; tial pain’ 
4. The fumigating chamber may be made of any convenient size or material, the essen Ane + 
being that it shall be capable of being closed absolutely airtight, and provided with a be 
in the roof which can be opened or closed to allow of the escape of the gas after fumigahor, 
flue must be provided with a box or chamber to contain caustic soda or potash to destroy i | 
The fumigating chamber must be provided with a shutter or sliding panel in the lower P® 
of the door or wall. 
Door, flue, and shutter must all be made to close absolutely airtight. 
Directions ror Fumicatine wit Hyprocyanic Acip Gas. ‘ 
Proportions of Ingredients.—For every 150 cubic feet of room take 1 ounce of cyanide ° 
sium, 5 fluid ounces sulphuric acid, 10 fluid ounces water. ter it the | 
Having placed the fruit to be fumigated in the chamber, see that the flue and the shut { 
door or lower part of all are properly closed. +. placed 2 | 
The acid is then to be diluted in the following manner :—The whole of the water is P (afete! i 
a shallow china or glazed earthenware vessel, such as an ordinary wash-hand basin. " he 
vessels are inadvisable unless they are leaden ones.) The sulphuric acid is next poured Ue acide 
water in a thin stream, stirring the while with astick. Do not mix by adding the water to ced iB 
The basin containing the acid thus diluted (which should be allowed to cool) is now P. 
the fumigating chamber, and the cyanide of potassium is emptied into it. 
The gas is given off with great violence, and the door should be immediately closed. jn the 
The whole is now to be left to itself for one hour. At the end of this time the shutte™ At 
flue and in the door are opened, and the draught produced drives the gas out of the cham a uld 
the end of half an hour the door is thrown open, and if the draught has been effective thet Hi 
be hardly any trace of hydrocyanic gas recognisable. The chamber may be left in this ¢ owed 2 | 
for another ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. The fruit is now to be moved and # mples of | 
remain in a well ventilated place, preferably out of doors, for another half an hour. S Z| 
fruit will be examined from time to time by the entomologist. ; F reates! 
Caution.—As hydrocyanic acid gas is most deadly in its effects on animal life, the § 
care must be taken in its use. 
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Department of Agriculture, 
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Brisbane, ’ apie 
This is to certify that has treated cases of citrus fruit with hydro ire 
acid gas for one hour, under my supervision, These cases have been branded ‘‘Crow 
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Consigned to: 
Department of Agriculture, 1899: “ 
Brisbane, 26th J: anuary ales is 
4 ee following Proclamation by His Excellency the Governor of New South 
published for general information. 7 _¥. OHATAN pou, 
New Sourn Watxs, PROCLAMATION. coo™ 
to wit. By His Excellency The Right Honourable Hunry Ropekt, ue ny of 
(L.8.) + Hamppen, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Col0™ 
HAMPDEN, New South Wales and its Dependencies. 
Governor. 7 fro | 
Wuerxas the Governor is empowered by Section 9 of the “Vegetation Diseases Act, 189% pale 
time to time, by Proclamation in the Gazette, to declare any fungus or vegetable paras? rf ah 
eyer to be a fungus within the meaning of the said Act: Now, therefore, I, HENRY ‘J, 4% 
Viscount Hamppen, the Governor aforesaid, with the advice of the Executive Count’ 08 
by this my Proclamation, declare Black Spot (Fusicladium) to be a fungus within the ™ 
ob the said Act. da of 
Given under my Hand and Seal, at Government House, Sydney, this twenty-second aud 
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-€1877 
in the sixty-second year of Her Majesty’s reign. 
By His Excellency’s Command, ° 
; JospH coos 
Gop Savz tHE Quzzn! 
