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1 Juxx, 1900.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. v. 
Directions ror Fumicatine with Hyprocyanic Acrp Gas. 
Proportions of Ingredients.—For every 150 cubic feet of room take 1 ounce of cyanide of potas- 
sium, 5 fluid ounces sulphuric acid, 10 fluid ounces water. 
Having placed the fruit to be fumigated in the chamber, see that the flue and the shutter in the 
door or lower part of all are properly closed. 
The acid is then to be diluted in the following manner :—The whole of the water is placed in 
a shallow china or glazed earthenware vessel, such as an ordinary wash-hand basin. (Metal 
vessels are seater unless they are leaden ones.) The sulphuric acid is next poured on to the 
water in a thin stream, stirring the while with a stick. Do not mix by adding the water to the acid. 
The basin containing the acid thus diluted (which should be allowed to cool) is now placed in 
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. 
The whole is now to be left to itself for one hour. At the end of this time the shutters in the ia 
flue and in the door are opened, and the draught produced drives the gas out of the chamber. At | 
the end of half an hour the door is thrown open, and if the draught has been effective there should } 
be petal, any trace of hydrocyanic gas recognisable. The chamber may be left in this condition 
for another ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. The fruit is now to be moved and allowed to | 
remain in a well ventilated place, preferably out of doors, for another half an hour. Samples of | 
fruit will be examined from time to time by the entomologist. : 
Caution.—As hydrocyanic acid gas is most deadly in its effects on animal life, the greatest 
care must be taken in its use. ; 
Department of Agriculture, 
Brisbane, ; 4 
This is to certify that has treated cases of citrus fruit with hydrocyanic 
acid gas for one hour, under my supervision. These cases have been branded ‘‘Crown” over 
iii Passed. » 
Shipping marks: 
Per as. : 
Consigned to: 
Department of Agriculture, 
| Brisbane, 26th January, 1899, 
=| 4 eee following Proclamation by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales is 
published for general information. 
J. V. CHATAWAY. 
New Sourn WAtzEgEs, PROCLAMATION. 
to wit. By His Excellency The Right Honourable Henry Roperr, Viscount 
(1.8.) Hamrpven, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of 
HAMPDEN, New South Wales and its Dependencies. 
Governor. 
Wuergas the Governor is empowered by Section 9 of the “Vegetation Diseases Act, 1897,” from 
time to time, by Proclamation in the Gazette, to declare any fungus or vegetable parasite what- = 
ever to be a fungus within the meaning of the said Act: Now, therefore, I, Henry Rozerr , 
Viscount Hamppen, the Goyernor aforesaid, with the advice of the Executive Council, do, 
by this my Proclamation, declare Black Spot (Fusicladium) to be a fungus within the meaning 
of the said Act. 
Given under my Hand and Seal, at Government House, Sydney, this twenty-second day of 
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and 
in the Hakama year of Her Majesty’s reign. = 
By His Excellency’s Command, = 
JOSEPH COOK. 
Gop SAVE THE QuEEN! 
| Department of Agriculture, 
St Brisbane, 25th May, 1899. 
| H& Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive’Council, has, in 
pursuance of the provisions of “The Slaughtering Act of 1898,” been pleased to 
make the following Regulations. 
J. V. CHATAWAY. 
REGULATIONS UNDER “THE SLAUGHTERING ACT OF 1898.” 
Definitions. 
1. Save as herein otherwise provided, in these Regulations the terms used have 
the meanings respectively assigned to them by “The Slaughtering Act of 1898.” 
The term ‘‘ Stock’’ means and includes cattle, sheep, and swine; 
The term “Licensing Court” means a Police Magistrate or if he is absent or 
there is no Police Magistrate, then any two justices sitting in a Court of Petty 
Sessions haying jurisdiction in the district within which a slaughter-house is or is = 
| proposed to be established ; 
