The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-03
SHORT COURSE IN SKEETEROLOGY

| All along the Atlantic coast from Maine to Texas the mosquito called "Aedes solicitans" | (sort of suggests the famous Ladies from HelD breeds in brackish water and travels long dis tances in pursuit of prey. In recent years this breed of mosquito has established itself inland | in some places. in oil fields and about gas | wells, where salt water is brought to the sur face.
 | The common breed of mosquito in villages towns and cities is "Culex." In the southern states another breed called "Stegomyia' is squeamish and breeds only in fairly clean wa | ter. such the rain barrel or open wells or cisterns "CuleX' is not particular. and will breed prodiciously in convenient drain, ditch or open sewer, even when cleaner breeding places, such as old tin cans or bottles under the weeds, obstructed caves, are available l Of course all mosquitoes must have standing water liquid to breed in. The water must stand there for at least week or ten days for ohe generation of mosquitoes to bloom. | Also of course complacent old ignoramuses still put up with the mosquito nuisance in the belief that the varmints breed in any shady spot in the deep grass or weeds: That is not so Unless there is a pool or little can of water under the weeds or grass. or perhaps little pond, fountain brook with stagnant water, | the skeeterS simply cant multiply or survive long.
 | But before you consign your neighbor to the place where all bad neighbors ought to go. for his inconsderate maintenance of the neighbor- hood mosquito nuisance from the open cistern or fountain pool rain barrel or bird bath in his yard. look well into your own cave | troughs and see that you are not growin the varmints yourself. I speak with emotion about this, for I passed all one summer in a terrible passion over the open fountain in my neigh bors yard, only to discover toward autumn that 1 had been breeding my own in an cave trough blocked with dead leaves the garage. I feel ashamed whenever l meet my neighbor now, after all the i'll luck wished him. didn't know, but all along he kept some goldfish in his pool, and they take care of the tender young mosquito larvae or wiggletals quite efficiently. | If you have to have pool or reservoir of standing water your abode, either stock it with goldfish minnows (minnows prefer Iat%1. x..tft, to cess of the female mosquitoes when they seek a place to deposit their eggs or at regular in- tervals spray upon the surface thin film of crude oil or kerosene or old motor oil of any
 knd The oil film on the surface of the water smothers the wiggetais. So they will never grow up into adult mosquitoes.
 | If people only knew it, the cost of screening homes in a community is often much greater than would be the cost of an intelligent cam paign to suppress the mosquito nuisance Some forward looking communities now have an or dnance making it misdemeanor to allow mosquitoes to breed on the premises. Any trained inspector from the health department can determine definitely by examination wheth- 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Breakfast Food Is Good Food | Please tell me whether - (proprietary breakfast food) arc pure and good for children fast foods arc not pure (Mrs J. Nick. WI | Ansewer-Ths and all other so-called break fast foods now on the market are wholesome enough for children adults, so far as I know
 You misunderstood my allusion. did not inn ply that such foods are not pure or wholesome but only that they are mainly carbohydrate food and if breads and sugars and starchy veg etables cereals are taken these ordinary
 items provide plenty of carbohydrate There is more beneficial in any way than slice of plain bread roll wheatcakes would be. | Bimbo Needs Banana
 He is E months old, breast fed, weighs IS R
 pounds, but Is very constipated. Doctor says he win bc till he starts eating. Doctor advised give him castor oil three times a day. (Mrs T. lM)
 Answer-Save the castor oil for your hair warts airplane engine, and start the baby eating NOW Start him eating banana. Darned if I'll repeat the directions this tme-the ban ana men have never sent much banana, at least not a banana has ever reached me, for all the carloads I've marketde for 'em
 But take a nice ripe one with the pulp yellow sweet and soft but not mushy and give the baby spoonful or two day, increase the ra- tion every few days. till he takes whole ban ana every day at the.age of months. and then show him to your doctor and tell the doctor say he Is all wrong about castor oiling infan-s for constipation.
 Il Fibroid Tumor. But What of IL? II Read fin your column of a woman being cured H of fbroid tumor by X-ray treatments Dr - II told last December have fbr0id about H the size of an egg but he told me to go home and not worry about 1t until 1t causes some trouble. (Mrs F.. S)
 Answer-Good advice. Why look for trou- ble. If you do have any trouble. then your doe tor will tell you about X-ray treatments. Such treatments do suffice in many cases. though X-ray treatments usually, not always, render the woman sterile for an indefinite time. Many any serious trouble and should not cause any anxiety.
 Athletes Wearing Supporters | Is it necessary advisable tO wear . sup- porter when engaged in such sports as swim ming. tennis rowing or handbali? ! used Co
 weaF one. bmt found item uncomfortable and Iiafely hase not bothered. fM. ssI
 Answer-No. It is better 10 avoid artificial lsuppcfts fl one Is comfortable without