Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-05

u',' -; The way OF the irato housckesper
o. - avo,ding food or other substances
.',,ion have been doctored with poisons
~. .hoir benefit. Their keenncss In TINS
s,,ac,ion "a unquestionabiy the inneir"
a,'cs of many centuries during whicn
! ,be hand OF man has ever been Taise"
! against them. u.
IRE means against these insects IN
| Guiding always vigilance ana cieaniiiie''
as important prcventiyes, are pnie
namely. destruction by poisons, by iuini-
sagon with poisonous gases, and ny
trapping. -. of,en
PoIsons-As Just noted. roaches often
seem to display knowledge or the p,e-
sence OF possons in food, ana, no.Mi.m,
| standing their practically omiii'oio.s
bah,ts q very little arsenic in paA1'
oeems 10 be readily detected by tnen.
In attempting to eradicate roaches h.o
IN. denartment store-rooms "no.S
cIoth- bound books are kept, various
nestle mixtures containing arsenic
,r,oa hut the reaches invariably re
| fused 10 feed on them In the iess.. IN
applIes particularly TO inc ,,"Id
| roach. or croton-bug, ana may ~ -
SO strongly with the less wary an
hans less intelligent larger roae" for
| common remedy susgeslen ~
.,,oo consists in the liberal use VI
,,,,.e,hr,r nowder or buhach, and wnsn
III &C. nerslsted in considerable rene
| lin no eained II Is not peileOs
rnr,.dv however and Is ut best put a
.o,n,orsrv exped,ent while II mas .no
additional Disadvantage or soihhs ~"
ahor,.o, o- other objects over when ~
g. d,stoa when used IL should be ifes.'
| and literally applied. Roaches are
I ton paralyzed by 10 when not Hieu o
| right and the morning AFTER an dPP
cation the infested premises siOulu p
conc over and all the dead OF p al .,a,
naralvzed reaches swept up and puineu'
,rhnya are many proprietary SUD-
! .,o,coe which claim TO be fairy ei
ractive roach poisons. The usefulness %
most Of these is, however, very pro-
| hlematical. and disappointment VIII %
! dinarily follow their applica'ioh.
| a,,i,, ono of these that has given very
| .atisfoctory results Is phospnorou'
,as,a also sold In the form of pills. 1t
nrobably consists OF sweetened hou,
naste containing phosphorus ana 70
| spread on bits OF paper OF caruDo"t'
| and placed in the rnnways OF 'ne IoSI
| esl II has been used very sueceSS t,.,
| IN the department to free ueshs - -,
| Croton-bugs, numbers OF inc ue"u -,
80 being found in the drawers every
a., drring the time the poison was
kept about a,,o, ,,reet
Observation-Disclosures reaches Unrest
| email rooms or apartments which may
he sealed up nearly air-tight, ana aiSo
| on shinboard. the roach nuisance can
no greatly abated by the proper use o,
poisonous gases. notably bisulphiae 0,
carbon. This substance, distributor
| ohout n pantry or room in open Vessels,
vii, evaporate and, II used In sulilcieht
ouantity. will destroy reaches. cli'es'
the room can be very tightly sealed np'
however. the vapor dissipates so raplu-
ly that it's effect Will be lost before the
reaches are killed. The hatches OIL
ships. especially of smaller coasting yes
sells. may be battened down, very
liberal application Of bisulphide on ga,
hon having been previously made
throughout the interior. II left FOR
twenty-four hours the reaches and all
other yermln will unquestionably havo
heen DESTROYED. In the use OF this suo-
stance. Il must be always borne In nina
| that II Is violently explosive In the pre-
| sence of fire and every possible pre-
| caution should be taken 10 see that no
| fire Is in or about the premises during
! the treatment 1t is also deadly TO hign-
or animals, and compartments should DO
thoroughly aired after fumigation' a
safer remedy of the same nature con-
sists in burning pyrethrum IN the IN
tested apartment The smoke ana va
pors generated by the burning or thls
insecticide are often more eHec,iVe III
DESTROYING reaches than the application
NJ the substance in the ordinary way
40 n novder There is no attendant
danger OF explosion, and the only pre-
| canton necessary is to see that the
room ia kept tightly closed for from
six TO twelve hours. The smoke or
burning gunpowder is also very obnoxl-
ous and deadly to reaches, particularly
the black English roach. On the au-
thority of Mr. Theodore Pergande, gun
powder is commonly used in Germany
to drive these reaches out or their
haunts about fireplaces. The method
consists in moulding cones Of the moist
ened powder and placing them In the
empty fireplace and lighting them. The
smoke coming from the burning powder
causes the reaches to come out OF the
creyices about the chimney and fire.
bricks In great numbers, and rapidly
| naralyzes or kills them, so that they
NAV be afterwards swept up and de-
stroyed. This remedy will only apply
TO old houses with large flreplaces. anc
has no especial significance for the
modern house 1t Is presented, however
as a means applicable wherever condi
tons similar to those described occur
Neutrality-suspicious. forms of traps have
been very successfully employed I'm Eng
land and on the continent Of Europe. al
| a means Of collecting and destroying
reaches These devices are all so con
structed that the reaches may easil,
get into them and cannot afterwards
escape. The destruction of the reaches
, IS effected either by the liquid into which
they fall or by dousing them with no
; water. A few of the common forms
/. Of traps and the methods of using then
5 are here described.
A French trap consists or box con
: tanning an attractive bait. the cover o
Q which Is replaced by four glass plate
inclined toward the centre. The roach
es fall from the covering glasses into tn
o box and are unable to escape. J
. similar trap used in England Is described
| by Westwood. 1t consists OF a small
wooden box, in which a circular hol
Q is cut in the top and fitted with a glas
h ring so that IL is impossible for tn
@ reaches to escape. This trap is bate,
q nightly, and the catch thrown eacl
morning into boiling water A simple
form Of trap. which, 1 am informed b,
o Mr. F. c. Pratt Is very successful,
G used In London. Eng, consists OF an,
: deep vessel or jar. against which nun
. Der OF sticks are placed, and bent owe
so that they project into the interio
OF tho vessel for few inches. The yes
sci is partially filed with stale beer o
ale, a liquid for which reaches seem I
have O special fondness. In the morn
ing these vessels are found charges
with great quantities OF dead and dyin
reaches, which have climbed up the In
clined sticks and slipped Off into the YES
sci. We have had fair success wit
this last method against the Orienta
| -cl, In, "a oh hut ms