Evening star., 1923-04-06
SOME EFFECTIVE METHODS
OF DESTROYING SMALL PESTS
Bugs and Insects May Be Kept Away From
Household by Taking Various
Precautions.

, and then adding an equal quantity
of turpentine. Use a soft brush to
apply. Reaches will be found dead
in numbers and can then be swept
up and burned.
A good trap to catch reaches, that
is easily made at home. is to stand
a cylindrical receptacle. with vertical
sides. in dish baited with molasses.
and connect the top Of the cylindrical
receptacle with the floor by means
of a stick of wood. The reaches will
ascend the. stick, but will fall into
the dish when they smell the mo-
lasSes.
Borax is an excellent means of get
clean and safe to use, but reaches eat
1t and die. Pyrethrum or sodium
fiuorid also is effective in extermi-
mating these pests.
Extefminatfen OF Other Pests.
Even the neatest housewife some
times meets with the bedbug. A good
way to nout them is to All an atoInizer
with ammonia and spray thoroughly
every crack and crevice in the house
where they are suspected TO have been.
The ammonia will burn all eggs as well.
Wipe Off all corners and sides or mat
tresses with ammonia and water. If
the ammonia is used on woodwork. il
may turn the varnish white. but the
woodwork can be easily revarnished.
Keep all windows and doors wide open
HHeH working Win ammonia.
IL is sometimes impossible to use any,
kind of liquid for the determination
OF bedbugs, and fumigation must be
Tesorted to. as. for instance. when they
| infcst books and upholstered furniture.
One room at time may be fumigated
| by burning one pound of sulphur can
dies to each 500 feet of air space. This
would be q room fifteen by twenty and
ten feet high The sulphur should be
placed III an iron receptacle. a coal
I fRlRSpOnPd
into the other. and should not be sur
rounded or placed in water. as the gas
must be dry to be effective in killing in
sects. The room must be tightly closed
even the keyhole stuffed. and all me-
tallic surfaces removed. as the fumes
will injure them. After several hours
| the room may be entered and then well
aired.
lodging places for bedbugs and they.
, together with old picture frames and
storeroom rubbish which harbors these
| bugs. should be burned.
To make a trap to catch ants. soak
| sponge in water and wiring it nearly
dry. Then sprinkle the sponge thor
oughly with confectioner's sugar and
lay II on plate. putting il in place
which the ants frequent. II will soon
be full of ants. Then drop the sponge
Sary. Cloves or salt sprinkled on the
pantry shelf will help TO keep ants
away. To destroy ants nests near
plants and flowers in the garden.
ground. heads down. The ants will
leave and the plants will remain un-
harmed
II carpet bugs are discovered, the
carpets should be taken up. thorough
" cleaned outdoors. SPRAYED with
gasoline or benzine. and aired and
summed. The floor should be thor
oughly scrubbed. special attention be
; ing given to cracks and crevices The
cracks should be filled with a good
crack filler.
To get rid of rats or mice, find the
runway, or hole. from which the ro-
dents come. then fill up the hole with
ola new Spapers. in the folds OF which
put plenty of red pepper. It will clear
them out at the first application.
Cedar Oil for weoIens.
Allowing cast-off clothing or pieces
OF cloth 70 accumulate in a promis-
cuous heap is an invitation TO moths.
have such things brushed free from
dust and then cleaned and packed
away. The odor of cedar is as much
d protection against moths as it that
not like the odor OF cedar. If YOU
nave no cedar chest in which to pack
away blankets and other woolens.
sprinkle little cedar oil on the blot
tlnS paper, newspaper or cloth which
Aht dIllcIeS. lurpentlne used
IN the same way is also effective
To Kill moths in q carpet, saturate
some corn meal with gasoline, cover
the carpet well with the mixture
then scrub IL with a brush Close ALI
doors and windows and let the fumes
OF gasoline escape. BE sure that there
is no fire in the house if you use
gasoline: Blotting paper. well satu-
rated with turpentine. is good TO put
IN drawers among wooden things or
Wherever there is any danger of
moths working destruction. II can
also be put along the edges of car
pets. t
Special sugsestions.
sometimes there are cracks and
hoies which offer means of entrance
TO various pests. These can be stopped
up effectively by soap. In the kiteh
en- and bathroom there should be a
frequent use of hot water. and es-
pecIally after pouring any greasy
I1quld down the pipes. The use Of
soda amounts to little without the
addit1onai use of hot watef The
soda unites with the grease, but both
sun coat the pipes. Hot water is
necessary to dissolve the coating.