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Home Nature-Study Course. 



( I ) . Rain barrels should be securely covered. 



(2). All stagnant pools shoul^i be drained and filled up if possible. 



(3). Whenever there are ponds or pools where mosquitoes breed 

 that cannot be filled of drained, the surface of the water should be 

 covered with a spray of kerosene oil. This may be applied with a spray 

 pump or from a watering can. 



(4). If it is impracticable to cover such places with oil introduce 

 into such pools the following fish : minnows, stickle-backs, sunfish 

 and gold fish. 



References. — Farmers' Bulletin No. 155, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, by L. O. Howard ; leaflet in Reading Course for Farmers' Wives, 

 series 2, No. 10, by M. V. Slingerland ; "American Insects," Kellogg; 

 "The Insect Book," Howard; "Insect Life" and "Manual for the Study 

 of Insects," Comstock ; "Ways of the .Six-footed," Comstock. 



"Mosquito Life," E. J. Mitchell; Putnam's, $2.00. "Mosquitoes," 

 L. O. Howard; McClures, $1.50. 



Dark form of the Amanita {A. phalloides) . Com- 

 pare with white form on page 5. 



