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The Agricultural Ledger 1901 (Entomological Series No. 9)

1901

" Thence they dressy their bedsteds withall that is to say in turing of the woode they take a peece of Lac of what colour they will and as they turne it when it commeth to his fashion they spread the Lac upon the whole peece of woode which presently with the he-at of the turning [melteth the waxe] so that it entreth into the crestes and cleaveth unto it about the thicknesse of a man's nai [...] Having in the foregoing remarks briefly indicated some of the more striking features of the growth of the present trade it may be desirable to give briefly particulars regarding-1st the Insect ; end the Production and Supply of Lac ; 3rd the Manufacture of Lac and Lac-dye from the crude article ; and 4th the Industries in which lac is an important necessity (more especially Indian Art Industr [...] It may be of interest to many persons however to give here some of the more valuable and interesting descriptions of the insect and the formation of lac from the pens of the earlier writers : Extract from the dsiatic Researches Vol. [...] " Having had an opportunity of examining the lac-insect just previous to the evolution of its young and of watching the latter from this period up to the time at which they become incarcerated in the resinous substance which they secrete around themselves known in commerce by the name of lac ' and finding that a description of the changes which the insect undergoes still remains unpublished s [...] The branch was taken from a tree growing in the enclosure of the Bombay Mint within a few yards of the sea and in the midst of the smoke of steam engines smelting furnaces and the atmosphere of a crowded population ; while the resinous incrustation and the red colouring matter both in quality and quantity did not appear to me to be less than that which is produced by the insect in localities
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Pages
179
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120029
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Agricultural Ledger. 1901—No. 9
i-348 George Watt view
Index
i-ix unknown view

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