The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-06

on plates or in saucers and place these in tho kitchen or in any apartment where reaches are predominant. Fer the Uh1quitous Bed Dug. Get a bottle of the corrosive suhli- mate tablets and use two tablets to every pint of water: spray the beds. floors, closets. wardrobes. mop-boards. cracks wherever found, sinks, and In fact any place in the house where you may fnd the bugs. Keep this deadly poison out of the way of ignorant per sons and children.
 To Disperse Black Ants. |. A few leaves of green wormwood scattered among the haunts of these troublesome insects will dislodge them and clear them out
 To Extermlnate Red Ants. Grease . plate with lard and set 1t where these insects abound. They like lard better than anything else and will leave sugar for it. Place q few sticks around the plate for them to pests, and are always looking out for . chance. Turn the plate over tho fire and the lard will melt, carrying the ants with it.
 Beat the yofk of egg with . table, spoonful of nolasses and black pepper finely ground. Set 1t about in shallow places where the flies will be attracted. They can walk on. but not of. A sweetened infusion of one dram of Quassia in . gill of water, with one- half sill of. molasses. put in a glass. and a pasteboard with hole in it over the glass (care being taken to put a rim of molasscs on the underside of the pasteboard) will also prove a eatchall for flies.
 Another Cure fer Bed Bugs. urSl lxI pests as fast as they can be reached By using a spring-bottom oiler, the duid may be forced into cracks and cfsvices more thoroughly than in any other way. The room should be well ventilated after using this most in- fammable fluid and lighting fire in the room must be sedulously avoided for several hours.
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 Wash all articles infested with the bug with chloride of zino asking your druggist for a weak solution. This is an effectual banisher of these destroy CTS of the peace.
 To Danish F1eas.
 The oil of pennyroyal will drive neas away successfully. The odor is pun gent and permeating and annoying to the flea It Is also equally helpful in allayfng itching of the mosquito bite.
 The best preventive of gnats is oam- phor. and also good cure for their stings.
 A Good Bait for . Mouse Trap.
 A drop of oil of rhodium poured on some bait in a common wire spring trip will be found very enticing to the mouse and he will be caught easily.
 Pleas on the Cat and Dog.
 If your cat and dog are troubled with feas. give the dog a bath with four teaspoonfuls of creolin to one quart of water, and for the cat use only two teaspoonfuls of creolin. Rub the mixture on with the hands or brush. and if possible submergs the pets for two or three minutes.
 To Kill Moths.
 Should you find moths flying about your room, boil one part formalin to two parts of water on a little alcohol stove. The fumes will kill the moths
 For Summer Flies. Rub the doors and crevices of the windows with kerosene: the flies are sensitive to the odor, and will go else- where.
 Sulphur candles burned in a closed room will usually destroy vermin in the walls
 splendid cure for mosquito bites, and something which Is so odious to the mosquitoes sense of smell that 1t will keep away from it if the hands and face are mopped with the fluid, Is made of 16 per cent menthol dissolved in cologne or alcohol If this is not strong enough for the insects discom- fort use more menthol