The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-06-01
WAR ON THE COCKROACH.
fhis Kitchen Pest Holds His Ground,
Despite Mans Ingenuity -
Approved strategy.

earliest ages has been directed to the
construction of cockroach traps. Get
ting roach into place where there
is something to eat is easy enough
getting him to stay there till you
can come and kill him is another mat
ter" says Harvey Sutherland, in Aims
lees. Putting molasses on piece OF
board afoat in a broad basin is said
to be a great success. 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. 1 suppose event.
ually he does drown, but | have Sever
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. 'et
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 niggling kind of warfare at best.
1t 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 and say, We'll, | 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 a household pest that nc
trap can allure, be it ever so tempt.
ing. The cockroach of to-day is plen
ty smart enough.
Destructive agencies that fall alike
upon the wise and the unwise are
quicklime and Persian powder blown
into the cracks where they hide. 1t
is a mistake to suppose that the Per.
sian powder will kill 1t is suffocat-
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!i
Well-directed blows with a felt slip.
per at such times do great execution.
! often wonder that housewives do
not appeal to the Anglo Saxon pas
sion for the chase in husbands and
sons. There is much sport in a cock
roach battle. Under the water pipes
by the range and in the crevices of
the stationary tubs are famous hunt. l
ing grounds. If you have a taste for
scientific experiments you NAV seal ..
up the doors and windows with strips
Of paper smeared with molasses. and :
then sprinkle bisulphide of carbon
loout. 1t is volatile liquid, whose
'apor is destructive to all small life
I permeates the house with vocif y
'rous fragrance, compared with which =
rylng saur-kraut is mere whisper.
I is similar in character, though not
o permanent, as the perfume of the 8
title animal with black-and white
trlpes around its tail, which is not d.
vanilla plant, either. If all this does u
ot deter you, feel it my duty to
i've the further warning that if the OF
apor of bisulphide of carbon comes al
contact with flame it goes bang! n n
egardless of consequences. 1t is. very til
npulsive, like gasoline.
The fumes of burning sulphur are ~
lst as efficacious as bisulphide of car. be
on, and not explosive at all. but flu
1ey blacken gilt things and impart u oe
distinct flavor of blue-tipped ~
atches to all and sundry the con. 19
nts of the room. Also the place tr'
eeds airing for full "a hours after sd
ard unless you are fond of the ex He
else of coughing. Shippers of fish Go
g smacks, not afraid of being
ought finicky and over-nice, use tn.
lphur process few days before be. pr
inning the season, and follow it up
70 weeks later to kill such reaches W.
ID Norfok-Howards as may have He
tched out since. acc
The Mexican remedy I particularly soi
sire to bring to the attention of ,
ose who recognize the power of the ~ ~
nd over material ills. 1t is the sim me-
EST of all. Catch three cockroaches us
d put them into bottle. Take the an'
tile to a crossroads. Turn il up- WI VI.
lie down, and while the reaches are one
opping out repeat three Credos SAT
'ud. All the cockroaches in the 70
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