124 DDT— Killer of Killers 



spective home may look pretty good; but if you penetrate the 

 outer shell you will probably find nothing but a sponge-like, 

 honeycomb structure which will collapse when subjected to a 

 little extra stress. 



Perhaps the best thing to do if you have termites around 

 is to get out the 5 % DDT-kerosene mixture and treat the 

 soil around the timbers you want to protect. One treatment 

 will remain eifeaive for at least two seasons. 



A Dog's Life 



When Fido stretches out on the living room rug for a 

 well-deserved rest after a day of chasing cars or just hanging 

 around with his girl friend, he doesn't rest peacefully. Every 

 few minutes he twists himself into some grotesque position 

 and scratches his neck or some other portion of his anatomy 

 with his hind legs. Or else he gives a little bark and sud- 

 denly sinks his teeth into the hair on his belly as he tries to 

 bite a savage little devil with a formidable mouth equipped 

 for piercing the skin and sucking the blood. 



And if you are the owner of a dog or cat, you know 

 what a flea bite feels like, for fleas do not hesitate to vary 

 their diet with a little human blood. If for no other reason 

 than that he is an annoying pest, the flea deserves to be ex- 

 terminated. But he is more than that — he is one of man's 

 most dangerous insect enemies. Untold millions of humans 

 have lost their lives from diseases transmitted by fleas. Bu- 

 bonic plague — the infamous Black Death of the l4th cen- 

 tury — is still with us, and this disease is known to be trans- 

 mitted from rats to men by the bite of the rat flea. And 

 even the dreaded typhus, which is transmitted principally 

 from man to man by the louse, seemingly originates in rats 



