5,^2 DR. CEASE'S RECIPES. 



them. This is harmless, and safe, except by candle light. If any doubt of its 

 success, touch a bug with the least bit of it you can put on him. Use it freely, 

 as it is inexpensive, but positive, in its destructive powers; and does not staia 

 bed clothing. Still I must give some more, which are poisonous. Though 

 the next is not poisonous, but more hkely to Inflame, or explode, than this; but, 

 no matter what may be used, look over the bedstead in a week or two to meet 

 any new ones, from nits not touched at first. 



2. Naptha alone, or even gasoline, will destroy bed bugs utterly and 

 quickly. Put on as No. 1, freely. 



3. Bed Bug Poison. — Beat the whites of 4 fresh eggs well, and then put 

 In 1 oz. of quicksilver; or in this proportion, for as much as needed, and apply 

 with a brush, or feather, as most convenient — keep it out of the way of chil- 

 dren, as it is very poisonous. Corrosive sublimate pulverized, % oz., beat in, 

 in the same way, will do the same thing. Or it can be used in liquid form, as 

 in the next recipe. 



4. Bed Bugs, to Get Rid of.— Spirits of turpentine, }{ pt. ; corro- 

 sive sublimate, % oz. When dissolved apply with brush or feather to every 

 crevice. Go over every 2 weeks till all nits are hatched out and killed— 2 or 3 

 times will do it every time. It is poisonous. These poisonous things are more 

 certain to prevent a return than the others. 



5. Another and better plan is to use carbolic acid, 2 drs., to water, i^ pt., 

 and apply as the others. 



6. And finally, the grease cooked out of salt pork, or bacon, applied hot, 

 by keeping over a dish of coals, is said to be everlasting in its effects of kill 

 ing and keeping them away. The reporter of the plan had been 30 years with- 

 out their return. - 1 should only fear the everlasting squeak of the bedstead, it 

 applied in the joints, just where the bugs most do congregate. 



7. Bed Bugs, to Clear from Old Cracked Walls, etc.— Tear 

 off the old paper and wash the walls with pretty strong boiling hot lye, made 

 from wood ashes, or the concentrated lye, of which soap is made. Two ozs. 

 of this would be enough for a pail of water. Put it freely to every crack, and 

 about the base, at the floor joint, as well as next the plaster; then repaper and 

 you are safe. If the wall is rough, and danger of nits, wash the whole wall 

 with the hot lye. 



Caterpillars on Fruit Trees, To Destroy.— If for no other reason 

 than for the looks of an orchard every bunch of caterpillars should be destroyed 

 as soon as seen; but if left alone they multiply and soon extend from tree to tree 

 so quickly, to the destruction of the orchard, it should be done to eradicate them 

 entirely from the grounds, as notliing is so unsightly as an orchard or tree 

 infested with these pests. The most positively destructive way of nVIding the 

 trees of them is to have a sheet-iron dish made about 6 inches deep and 4 inches 

 in diameter, with a tube-like piece, 5 or 6 inches long, standing at an angle of 

 45° (quarterly pitch) from the perpendicular, at the bottom, into which put the 

 end of a slender pole, fitted to enter the tube 2 or 3 inches; the tube, say, ' inch 



