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TENANTS OF AN OLD FARM. 



see that it shows a network of galleries, uniting caves of 

 various sizes, just as I have described it. (Fig, 95.) 

 " The ■ Insect Destroyer ' works about in this wise : 



fig. 95. — a patent ant extekminatok. — from thr 

 inventor's circular. 



alternate layers of in;nited charcoal and sulphur or 

 similar materials are laid in a hollow dug around one of 

 the gates, and surrounded by a 'smoke chambei*. ' Tn 

 one case a bellows, in another an air-pump, is attached 

 to this chamber, and as the combustibles are blown 

 into a flame, the gas thus generated is also forced down 

 the galleries into the rooms, and of course suflbcates 

 the ants. The inventor, as you sec, here advertises 

 ' the largest bed of Cutting Ants completely destroyed 

 in twenty to forty minutes.' " 



" Dear me !" exclaimed Al)by, " that is surely a IVll 



