The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1906-04-18

clear up your premises Of all empty
cans, bottles, old pots and every 9TH
er useless thing which holds water in
which mosquitoes may breed
While not generally known, never
theless it is fact, that cutters on res
licences, stores, warehouses and other
buildings, which get clogged up with
leaves hold water in which millions OF
mosquitoes breed, and that loose or
/ sagging cutters hold water with the
SINE results. Therefore clean out and
look after your cutters very often.
A half pint of kerosene oil poured
into your cesspool once every week will
prevent mosquitoes breeding there
in. In the meantime examine the COW
ers of all cess pools for cracks or holes.
A hole in the op Of cess pool cover
no large than a four-penny nail ad-
mits mosquitoes which begin the in
crease of the mosquito population very
fast.
Horse and COW troughs are great
breeding places for mosquitoes. Emp
ty these troughs every day or so and
scrub out the bottoms. Otherwise you
will notice by close observation that
there are 1'wiggle-tails' in the water,
and that if you merely turn in fresh
water without scrubbing out the bot
toms of the troughs that the 3'wiggle
tails are left on the bottoms and be-
gin to grow as soon as fresh water
is turned in the trough.
Place barrel or box Of such size as
can be conveniently carried out by
your back door, or on your back piaz-
"a, and instead of throwing empty
cans, bottles and waste paper, or 9TH
er refuse into the yard, throw them
into the box or barrel and then take
or have taken, the trash box or barrel
every day or several times week to
the edge of the sidewalk where the
scavenger carts will take off the bar
bage and other refuse. Put out your
garbage of all kinds, except liquid
slops, every day if you like, but don't
throw it around your premises.
Remember that the scavenger carts
are\here for sanitary purposes and that
all refuse Of any nature from the
house, but particularly fast decaying
garbage, should be put out daily be-
fore 10 o'clock, and sooner if posi-
bic, so that the carts can get it. Wa
termelon rinds can be kept on the
premises for forty-eighty hours, but
not longer, and it is better to put them
out daily.
Please remember that crockery
crates old box cars, piano boxes, dry
goods boxes which hold more than
scavenger cart, and other large recep-
ticles are not allowed for trash boxes.
Only boxes or barrels of much size
and weight as can be lifted and emp
tied by the cart drivers can be put out
It is the duty Of the driver to place
your empty trash box or barrel inside
your yard, and it must not be return
ed to the street, empty or full, during
the day, but must be put out with gar
bage before 10 O'Clock the next morn
ing.
If you have a low place in you,
yard or on any Of your property, or
hole, or old flower pit which holds
weter, drain it, cover it up, or kero-
sene Oil kept therein will keep mosqui-
toes out.
AS the scayenger carts are not
equipped with hosting engines and
railroad de-ricks, it is impossible for
box which holds enough yard trash to
make a team of mules stall going down
garbage every day or so, and you
won't have to hire man to work by
the day to clean up your yard every
now and then.
Don't stick your wash pot or foot
tub half way under the house where
rain water can fall into it and breed
mosquitoes. Keep all rain barrels coy
cred so that mosquitoes cannot get in.
At depots, factories, warehouses. cot
ton platforms, storage sheds, gin hous-
es, cotton congresses and all places
the water barrels kept for fire
purposes must either be kept covered
or Kerosene OIL kept in the same SO
that mosquitoes will not breed therein.
Otherwise these barrels will be turn
ed over AID emptied SO often by the