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New Zealand Mail, Issue 931, 3 January 1890, Page 31

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COPY OF KEPOKTON PUBLISHED IN THE DARLING DOWNS GAZETTE, (TOOWOOMBA, QUEENSLAND). <ln your columns I have more than once seen the treatment of Seed Wheat with Carbolic Acid described, as used in England and in various parts of America; but I fancy farmers may h« inclined to say England and America are far away places, and too distant for us to visit to for ourselves. But if such should be their objection, lam happy to state that this seaso! [albas been made on the Downs with Carbolic A cid ? and as yet there is every prospect or the experiment being attended with success. I would advise farmers to watch the result and iudse for themselves. Messrs Archer & Sons, of Emu Creek, lam sure would be only too glad to give any inquirer all the information they are in possession of m reference thereto. The Messrs Archer & Sons state that corresponding with their friends Warwickshire England, last year, they, amongst other matters, incidentally mentioned how sadly the farmers of Queensland were pestered with Rust. The friends of the Archers, in replying to the letter, stated that in England Rust was not unknown, but in the agricultural county of Warwickshire, Carbolic Acid had been tried with good effect, and in that county there is but little fear or Rust. It is asserted that the treatment of Seed Wheat with Carbolic Acid will increase the yield and improve the quality of Wheat, and impart to the straw a peculiar brightness. It is likewisea Preventive of Smut, and successfully keeps off Insects of. all hinds. The flattering accounts received by the Messrs Archer & Sons, of Emu Creek, determined them to try its efficacy ona small scale. They had a fine patch of Barley, well out in the ear, that was badly affected by Bust; they cut it down with a view to its conversion into hay, leaving a small patch of the very rustiest of the Barley standing; this patch, when opportunity served, they dug up, digging m the Rusty Barley in the process, and on the 11th June sowed some White Lammas Wheat (in this ground) that had previously been dressed with Carbolic Acid ; and I am happy to say that, notwithstanding the severe test that it has been put to, it has successfully stood\ the trial. Owing to the late drought the Wheat lay sixty-five days in the ground without germinating. It is now looking fine and healthy, and I trust it may continue so. However, I feel very sanguine as to its success, and trust the result will not disappoint my anticipations. Mr Archer s method of treatment is as follows :—Use No. 5 Carbolic Acid (Calvert's),. 4oz to 2 gallons of water (cost of Carbolic Acid, 9d) ; this quantity is sufficient for 4 bushels of wheat. JSTo bluestone or anything else is required. Method of application :—Spread a sheet or tarpaulin on the ground, place the Wheat thereon, which spread well out; then apply the mixture through the nozzle of an ordinary watering pot, taking care to distribute the solution fairly over all the Wheat; then mix the Wheat thoroughly with a-shovel, so that no seed will escape being saturated or moistened with the mixture; if this is done at night the seed may be sown next morning. There is no fear of the Carbolic Acid destroying the germinating power of the Wheat. In the event of rain setting in and preventing immediate sowing, it can, with safety, be kept a few days without injury. At all events, so sanguine am lof the result, that I purpose next year sowing at least ten acres of Wheat, subjecting the seed sown to treatment with No. 5 Carbolic Acid, and I would strongly advise farmers to freely use the Acid with their Seed Wheat next season. N.B. —Other reports received from Queensland fully confirm the good results obtained by adoption of the process above described. Extract from a Special Report wnicn appeared in Bell's Weekly Messenger. « The use of Sulphate of Copper was dispensed with ; but in its stead the seed was dressed with Carbolic Acid (Calvert's No. 5), "with the double view of keeping both insects and rooks away from the crops, and, may be, preventing blights by its antiseptic action— both these objects were attained; freedom from blight has been most remarkable, and though the season was unusually wet, our straw is the best we have grown—the yield of grain proves to be a little over our average. , ♦ For each sack of wheat we used 4oz of Calvert's No. 5 Carbolic, well mixed with one gallon of water, in a watering pot, so that the fluid can be evenly distributed over the heap of corn, which is then turned over and over with a broad shovel till intimately mixed ; this is done over night and the seed is ready in the morning, but it does not seem to suffer by two or three days' delay. . . * We find the Acid (Calvert's No. 5) to be the most effective and cheapest preventive of the mischief for which it, is employed of any that have been used—it does not prevent germination,, nor, when rightly done, cause injury of any kind. If people buy the stuff too often sold to farmers as Carbolic Dressing, disappointment must follow; . ::v We have before us a bottle eontainin<r what seems to be ammoniacal gas liquor, floating above a black mass of gas tar—this contains about 5 per cent of Carbolic Acid, but the ammoniacal liquor and the tar, which is not mixable with water, cauterises the seed and covers it with a stiff black paste that renders germination next to impossible.' , < As the genuine article is so cheap, it is more than felly to buy the stuff just mentioned, token the saving of cost only amounts to a few pence per acre.' ._ , CALVERT'S No. 5 CARBOLIC ACID may be obtained through any Chemist, in Ribbed and Graduated (Boz, Is: 16oz, Is 6d.) Bottles, Trade Mark sealed, \, h, 1 and 2 Gallon Tins, 2s 6d, 4s, 7s, and 14s each; or in Bulk at 5s per Gallon (English Prices), and at special rates for large lots. 1X N.B.—Calvert's No. 5 Acid is guaranteed (by Trade Mark on Seal or Capsule and Label) to be full strength and free from Tar Oils, which are always present in low-priced Crude Carbolic Acids, that are consequently not reliable in their effect. NON-POiSONGUS DISINFECTANTS.

A ‘ Non-Poisonous Disinfectant ’ is an absolutely impossible substance, because the very act of killing disease germs is one of Poisoning. The careless use of Carbolic Acid (and other poisons) has certainly led to several mishaps, but many things really serviceable to the public benefit are liable to the same objection, and in recommending the use of No. 5 Concentrated Carbolic, Messrs Calvert & Co. fully believe that its general utility'for the numerous purposes to which it is serviceable, and its cheapness (in using) amply compensate for the very small risks incurred by its use; no case of poisoning by mistake having yet been leported as caused by Carbolic Acid sent out in the ribbed and labelled bottles for so many years employed by Calvert & Co. This statement is based on their experience of the past twenty years.

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