Check-list of the Species of Fishes Known from the Philippine Archipelago, Volume 4 |
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Page 49 - SEC. 7. Sections three hundred and forty-four and three hundred and forty-five of Act Numbered Three hundred and fifty-five, as amended by Act Numbered Six hundred and fifty-three, are hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: "SEC. 344. All criminal violations, by any person, of this Act or of the other Acts mentioned in section two hundred and ninety, as above amended, shall be prosecuted by order and under the supervision of the Insular...
Page 49 - ... eggs or unhatched cocoons of silkworms in reasonable numbers to the people of these Islands; and Whereas the importation of silkworms, their cocoons or eggs, by private persons would ultimately result in the introduction of disease : Now, therefore, By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: SECTION 1. The importation, except by the Bureau of Science, into the Philippine Islands of silkworms, their eggs or cocoons, or of the moths which produce silkworm...
Page 29 - ... prevent contagion eggs should be dipped in a solution of sulphate of copper before being incubated; and in cleaning shelves and nets, wherever a dead worm is seen, powdered sulphate of lime or copper should be applied. Unlike the corpuscles of pebrine, the microscopic organisms, which are probably the immediate cause of flacherie, remain alive from one year to another, and the dust of a rearing room may contain them in considerable quantities and become the means of infection. Hence, in cases...
Page 29 - ... that the disease may exist independently of these. However, as these micro-organisms, in the majority of cases, play a prominent part in the development of flacherie, it is well to guard against them. The principal causes of flacherie are: (1) Eggs being spoiled through careless preservation; (2) hereditary tendency; (3) overfeeding of worms; (4) wet, sweating, dewy, and fermented leaf; (5) leaf submerged in water or full of mud; leaf from a new plantation or from a shaded spot, coarse leaf,...