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ANTS, ROACHES, LITTLE SPIDERS, ETC.
To Destroy.
—" Hot alum water, " says a recent practical woman writer, " is the latest suggestion as an insecticide (insect killer). It will destroy red ants, black ants, roaches, spiders, chintz bugs and all other crawling pests which infest our houses. "
Remarks. —This writer does not say how much alum to use. I should say 1/2 lb to 1 pail of water, sprinkled about their haunts boiling hot, would do the work well.
2. Another writer, after being pestered with red ants a year or two, drove them away by placing raw sliced onions about the closets.
3. Another by putting tar, 1 pt., into water, 2 qts., and placing in shallow dishes in the closets.
4. Another by wetting sponges in sweetened water and placing where they enter the house, if that can be found, else in the closets, and after an hour or two dipping into boiling water.
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