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Crickets, to Drive Away or Destroy.
Put Scotch snuff into their holes. It is too much for them, and I think it would be more than roaches could stand the presence of. Put into crevices with a feather.
1. Chimneys, How to Build to Avoid Burning Out. —When
building chimneys, keep a mortar-board of mortar for the purpose of plastering them upon the inside as the work goes on, tempered up by adding one-fourth as much common salt as of mortar, which forms a glaze that soot can not stick to, and hence there is none to burn. " Prevention is better than cure. "
2. Chimneys, to Build to Avoid Smoking. —A builder of long experience says: " To build a chimney that shall not smoke, give a large space immediately above the throat, which will cause a draft. It may then be narrowed, if desirable. " This is good logic.
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