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life in the pea or bean. Others claim that if the peas or l^eans 

 are put in water the infested ones will float. This is not cor- 

 rect in all cases. A general remedy would be for the farmers 

 in one locality not to plant any peas or beans for one season, 

 but keep the seed from the previous year in closed vessels, so 

 that any infested seed would mature the weevil, and the latter 

 must perish, thus giving clean seed. 



REMEDY NO. 116. 



When this species of aphis appears, cut off the infested tops 

 of stalks, and immediately destroy by burning or otherwise. In 

 small garden patches, use No. 19, or spray with No. 64 ; or No. 

 4, 5, or 7 will give good results; but No. 19 or 64 are prefer- 

 able ; or use No. 83 or 85. 



REMEDY NO. 117. 



By scattering buhach with a small bellows (price twenty-five' 

 cents) in a room it will destroy insects, such as mosquitoes, 

 house-flies, gnats, fleas, etc. ; and by dusting in crevices of 

 bedsteads, furniture, and cracks in floors, walls, or ceilings, it 

 will destroy bedbugs and the larvae of fleas, etc. Corrosive 

 sublimate will also destroy insect life in joints and cracks in 

 bedsteads, furniture, clothes-chests, and places where clothes, 

 etc., are kept ; it should be applied with a brush or feather. 

 Great care should be taken if corrosive sublimate is used or 

 kept around the house, especially where there are children, as it 

 is very poisonous. 



See Remedies Nos. 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85 and 118. 



REMEDY NO. 118. 



By rubl)ing the parts of the body exposed, such as the 

 hands, face, etc., with the oil of pennyroyal, mosquitoes, gnats, 

 etc., will not bite the parts to which it is api)lied ; a few drops 

 will be sufficient. 



See Remedies Nos. 80 to 85, and 117. 



