The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-24
HOUSEHOLD PESTS.
Suggestions as to the Way to Eradi-
cate Bugs.

There are few housekeepers who
have not Weakened some morning to
find the sugar or flour or butter alive
with ants. The hanging Shelf invaded
With rats, the sink overrun with
reaches. So rapidly do these pests
breed that the most heroic efforts only
will exterminate them, and after that
a constant watchfulness must be MAIN
tanned to keep clear of their encrOach-
ments.
Corrosive suolimate is one of the
quickest poisons known, and for that
reason is efficacious. The proportion
should be about one part corrosive
sublimate to 100 parts water, which
makes it very strong. This, used as a
wash, is nearly always effective for
the time being. but other measures are
necessary for a complete radiance.
| Ants usually appear in the pantry
or cellar-Way, and invade everything
they find. Sugar, -four, etc, so af-
fected, should be scalded with plenty
of hot water, to Kill those already
there. Then everything should be re-
moved from the shelves and scalding
water poured over. Corrosive sub
Innate solution may then be poured
around, and when the shelves are dry,
blow with a powder bellows red pep
per in every crack and crevice. 1t is
unlikely they will ever return.
Rats and mice are more difficult to
deal with. Poison is out of the ques-
tion in the summer, for they always
choose a place in the house to die.
TRAPS fail to ensnare them. The only
plan to drive them away absolutely.
is to get a quantity of potash, put IL
in the sun till it becomes soft, and
then, with a stick, smear every hole
that can be found. Sooner than walk
through this a rat will change his
abode. From a druggist who sells
glass get all the pieces they throw
away, pound fine and throw in the
holes. Being sharp it will cut their
feet. This combination, potash and
glass, is a never-faillng cure.
Reaches are among the most persist
emit pests that invade a house. Get
equal parts of Paris green and borax,
and, at night set around their haunts
in old dishes. They will die away like
magic. Sometimes they are found in
desks, especially in Offices. This pre-,
paration scattered freely under the
bottom paper viii rid the drawers of
them. 1t is almost impossible to get
| rid OF bugs in a soft wood bed. Bet
ter burn the bed up in the beginning.
/ 1t is generally true that the baby
| GID Is Cne OIIeIlQiIlS nlenFDeF, De1nS
made OF softer wood. Then all the
beds in the house should be given a
turpentine bath, pouring it into all
the cracks and creyices. The spring
should have an extra good dose, and
the edges of the mattress, bolster and
| pillows soaked. A pint to a bed is the
average allowance. This will kill all
the bugs it reaches.
Blow insect powder all over the bed
spring and mattress; examine the bed
every day, repeating this treatment
twice a week for 9. month. Next var
nish the wood work. This will close
up all cracks where they could fave
hidden, and not only keep them out.
but prevent others from getting in.
The base boards and other paint
should also be looked to, turpentined
and, if thought necessary, Vanished.
Such treatment will destroy them in
short order.
Willow cribs and rockers need at
tention, particularly during warm
weather. The remedy for these is
scalding water, an application of cor
rosive sttblimate solution and a. coat
of vaTuliSs.l, which had better be left to
a furniture dealer to administer.
KENNEL WOOD.