CODLIN MOTH AND THE USE OF PARIS GREEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9189, 19 October 1888, Page 3

CODLIN MOTH AND THE USE OF PARIS GREEN.

I TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,-—Permit me to give a caution' to those about to use " Paris green." ■ I may be wrong, but my belief is that in unpractised hands it is so dangerous that a caution is necessary. Paris green . (arsenic) poisons the blood, and I think after first contact remains everlastingly in the system. I don't pretend to know anything about chemistry, but I am writing this in hope rhat some of our experts therein will ' let us •mow the risk attached to the use of Paris green, and the best preventatives. In these hard times a man with no know'edge of gardening may get a job in a garden 'or nursery to use this stuff, because practical men ■ declined to do so. On Monday last I saw a man with his hands hots de combat, and on enquiry found that he got a day or. two's work syringing trees with Paris green. The mixture was made up by his "boss," and 'he knew nothing about its being dangerous. .Most people know that sleeping in rooms papered green, or oven wearing socks or stockings coloured through the agency of arsenic; have in many instances lea to fatal results. How much more dangerous then must it be to syringe (it is nearly always blowing from some quarter),, and prevent some of .the liquid from getting into the eyes or gaining admittance into the system ? I hope you will have space for this.— am, etc., '• , J. C. Hart. •