Ty. QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JouRNAL. [1 APRIL, 1900. 
“THE DISEASES IN PLANTS ACT OF 1896.” 
’ Department of Agriculture 
Brisbane, 19th January, 180%: 
H* Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in poe 
of the provisions of ‘‘ The Diseases in Plants Act of 1896,” has been pleased to 
the following further Regulations. 7 Vv, OHAmaa AY. 
THE FUMIGATION OF FRUIT FOR EXPORT. ested 
1, Any one who wishes to erect a chamber or building for the fumigating of fruit 18 reqmnbet 
to give notice to the Under Secretary for Agriculture, who will take steps to see that the ¢ 
or building is properly constructed. ‘ yell 
2. When it is required to fumigate fruit for export, twenty-four hours’ notice must bef 
to the said Under Secretary or such other officer as may be duly authorised to accept such norised 
8. The operation of fumigating must be conducted under the control of an officer aut 
by the Minister for Agriculture. A 1 point 
4. The fumigating chamber may be made of any convenient size or material, the essen F 
being that it shall be capable of being closed absolutely airtight, and provided with a fine q 
in the roof which can be opened or closed to allow of the escape of the gas after fumigatiol iss 
flue must be provided with a box or chamber to contain caustic soda or potash to destroy t or OD 
The fumigating chamber must be provided with a shutter or sliding panel in the lowe? po! 
of the door or wall. 
Door, flue, and shutter must all be made to close absolutely airtight. 
DIRECTIONS FOR FUMIGATING WITH Hyprocyanic Acip Gas. i tas 
Proportions of Ingredients.—For every 150 cubic feet of room take 1 ounce of cyanide of po 
sium, 5 fluid ounces sulphuric acid, 10 fluid ounces water. in th 
Having placed the fruit to be fumigated in the chamber, see that the flue and the shutter 
door or lower part of all are properly closed. +. placed it 
The acid is then to be diluted in the following manner :—The whole of the water 1s P: M 
a shallow china or glazed earthenware vessel, such as an ordinary wash-hand basin. to the 
vessels are inadvisable unless they are leaden ones.) The sulphuric acid is next pour vr adi 
water in a thin stream, stirring the while with astick. Do not mix by adding the water to th", 
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. sn the 
The whole is now to be left to itself for one hour. At the end of this time the shutters t 
flue and in the door are opened, and the draught produced drives the gas out of the chamber. ald 
the end of half an hour the door is thrown open, and if the draught has been effective there see : 
for another ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. The fruit is now to be moved and @ ie of 
remain in a well ventilated place, preferably out of doors, for another half an hour. SamP 
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Caution.—As hydrocyanic acid gas is most deadly in its effects on animal life, the greates 
Department of Agriculture, f l= 
Brisbane, , amie = 
This is to certify that has treated cases of citrus fruit with hydroy er 
acid gas for one hour, under my supervision. These cases have been branded ‘Crow? 
aac ; * 
ipping marks: 
Per qs. : 
Consigned to: 
Department of Agriculture, 399. 
Brisbane, 26th January; 1 ales if 
pe following Proclamation by His Excellency the Governor of New South Ww 
published for general information. ey y. 
e J. V. CHATAWA>: 
Bee ee 
New Sourn WALES, PROCLAMATION, uxt 
to wit. By His Excellency The Right Honourable Henry Rossrt, Vi8C 
(z.8.) Hamepen, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony 
HAMPDEN, New South Wales and its Dependencies. 
Governor. 19 fy0Bd! 
WHEREAS the Governor is empowered by Section 9 of the “ Vegetation Diseases Act, 1897, pate 
time to time, by Proclamation in the Gazette, to declare any fungus or vegetable parasite m ": 
ever to be a fungus within the meaning of the said Act: Now, therefore, I, HENRY ea dor. 
Viscount Happen, the Governor aforesaid, with the advice of the Executive Coun®? 9 
by this my Proclamation, declare Black Spot (Fusicladium) to be a fungus within the m¢ 
of the said Act. of 
Given under my Hand and Seal, at Government House, Sydney, this twenty-second dete 
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eighty 
in the sixty-second year of Her Majesty’s reign. 
By His Excellency’s Command, 
SB ae 
JOSEPH COOE: 
Gop Save THE QuEEN! 
