Show extermination OF I 1 the official organ or be abe chamber of agriculture of yucatan reports on a successfully pro process cess of ox extermination termination of these pests which it recommends to all pl planters arters it delares declares that by exercising ordinary care a whole swarm of locusts may be destroyed T within a few hours bours without ay any danger whatever r to cattle the irlie experiment Perl ment to which it alludes was curried carried out in tho fac following mannor manners tho swarm of locusts locust a destroyed in this thil instance measured about yards in length by LOO yards in breadth they made their way in closed files and had alrea already jy devoured I 1 oil all that they found in their way ono offo pr und of arsenate ar of soda eoda was found sufficient to destroy the r swarm entirely tho the poison polean was wa mixed inigo J with tour fow pounds of brown blown sugar fragar panola pa uola cad QU dissolved in ft large vessel with vt hot cold water being lm im attly cida 4 in 0 quantity BUM clent to bhe forty five bounds younds af of so J I 1 I 1 w i ion six bunches ot of green barley lany any kind of grass straw or grain upon which tho the locust feeds may be neri about thirty six pounds soaked in the arsenic solution for from fifteen to twenty minutes so that the fodder was thor hughly saturated atu rated the advance of cho locusts was checked somewhat by flaunting cloths claths flags etc in front of the van at the he same game time the poison was distributed in small quantities among the rests pests in rows ten steea ca apart a small portion being cast about every tour four f feet cot in the aws by this means the poison was spread among tho the g greater reater 1 pait pai t of the swarm ahe 11 he first effects of tie tae poison w were ere to restrain the advance 1 st it being no I 1 necessary to resort to the orl oreg ganger ina inal tactics 1 e the flaunting of llaga flags etc the locusts attacked tile the rolson polso nod od fodder voraciously each salko of grain killing hund hundreds roJe ot those that ate tho the few that chat the fol loang I 1 I 1 I 1 ng morning had not succumbed had 19 the appear appearance anao of being c we wore re quickly disposed of by boating with sprigs sprig lipped dipped into what remained about two of the solution caro care was taken to gather tho the rest of the poisoned balloy barl which tho the locusts locuste bad failed to sorour devour on 0 11 ao ta 0 following day about ono thard of tho the original flock ad suc succumbed combed to lo the poi cion the the survivors tes feu 1 upon the doad ones arul and from on en their detraction destruction 5 st was off acted automatically there being no further necessity for spreading the polson poison in about four cays baya the elimination of this great swarm of locusts was complete it Is fe bortay worta a of note that the birds which fed upon the poisoned locusts showed no signs of having havin been at lealan the work of destruction was and ali tile only mat material al cost in wi was the work of our persons for two hours irom from the moment tho the forel of tho the swarm be began gan to take the poison the advance of ef ne ge entire swarm was checked ami tho the anat fectea showed no disposition to ad vanco farther |