St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1900-06-16
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WAR ON THE coSKRoAcH.
This Kitchen Pest holds His Ground,
Despite Mans Ingenuity
Approved strAtegy.

| Approved strategy
"The ingenuity of Rnan from the
earliest ages has been directed to.the
construction of cockroach traps. Get
ting q roach into place where there
/ is something to ea$ is easy enough;
can come and kill him is another mat
4 ter says Harvey Sutherland, in Aims
/ lees. Putting molasses on piece of
board af1oat in broad basin is said
to be a great success. I doubt it, for
it is my experience that a cockroach
is hard to drown. He does not throw
up his hands at once and sink bub-
bling to the bottom. suppose event
ually he does drown, but I have never
had the patience to wait and see.
have found that the least little kero-
sene on the water has the effect Of in
stantly killing him.
Another trap is glazed bowl half
full of stale beer or ale-their pledge
allows them to drink malt liquors
/ with lot of sticks leaned up against
| it and projecting over the liquid.
They drop in and drown themselves
and, presumably, their sorrows in the
/ flowing bowl. There are other traps,
all depending on the fact that the
roach cannot climb up glazed surfaces,
boxes with glass rings around a hole
IN the top, and the like. But the trap
is a niggling kind of warfare at best.
It lacks breadth of scope and action.
There is nothing whole-souled and
generous about it. Then, too, it de-
feats its own ends in the long run.
for the wise cockroaches that shake
their heads aud say, Well, / s don't
know about that, are preserved and
| the needless exterminated, SO that the
race tends to become warier and
warier, and we bequeath to posterity
yet unborn household pest that no
trap can allure, be it ever so Tempt
ing. The cockroach of to-day is p1en-
ty smart enough.
Destructive agencies that fall alike
upon the wise and the unWise are
quioklime and Persian powder blown
into the cracks where they hide. 1t
sian powder will kill. 1t is suffoeat-
ing, for it gets into the little holes
in their sides through which they
breathe. They stay in hiding after
the powder is blown in on them as
long as they can and then they rush
forth nervously, apparently crying
. Mercy land! | can't stand this!'
Well-directed blows with a felt Slip
per at such times do great execution.
/ often wonder that housewives do
not appeal to the Ang1o-Saxon pas
sion for the chase in husbands and
sons. There is much sport in cock
roach battle. Under the water pipes
by the range and in the crevices of
the stationary tubs are famous hunt
ing grounds. If you have a taste for
scientific experiments you may seal
up the doors and windows with strips
of paper smeared with molasses, and
then sprinkle bisulphide of carbon
about. Tt is volatile liquid, whose
yapor is destructive to all small life.
It permeates the house with a yoeif-
terous fragrance, compared with which
frying saur-kraut is q mere whisper
z 1t is similar in character. though not
so permanent. as the perfume of the
little animal with blaek-and-white
stripes around its tail, which is not
vanilla plant. either. IF all this does
not deter you, / feel it my duty to
give the further warning that if the
vapor of bisulphide of carbon comes
in contact with flame it goes bang!
regardless of consequences. It is very
impnlsive. like gasoline.
'sThe fumes of burning sulphur are
just as effieacious as bisulphide of car
bon, and not explosive at all but
they blacken gilt things and i1npart
distinct flavor of blue-tipped
matches to all and suntlry the con-
tents of the room. Also the place
needs airing for full "a hours after
ward unless you are fond of the ex-
ercise of coughing. Shippers of fish
ing smacks, not afraid of being
thought fnicky and over-nice, use the
sulphur process few days before be-
ginning the season, and follow it up
two weeks later to kill such reaches
and Norfolk-Howards as may have
Matched out since.
The Mexican remedy particularly
desire to bring to the attention of
those who recognize the power of the
mind over material ills. It is the sim
plest of all. Catch three coekroaches
and put them into bottle Take the
bottle to a crossroads. Turn it up
side down, and while the reaches are
dropping out repeat three Credos
aloud. All the eoelSroaches. in the
house from which these three were
taken will instant x I5e i. their things
and go, it is said. = -.
'sI don't believe it,
These Birds Have Gene.