76 HOW TO DESTROY INSECTS. 



the thumb. Every ten days after the first round 

 every nine days if the weather is dry and warm the 

 work should be repeated till the last week of August, 

 and again at the close of the season after the fruit is 

 gathered." 



Throw lime on the trees when the dew is on, or just 

 after a rain, and after the fruit is set ; a bellows is good 

 for scattering it. The insects will not go where the 

 lime is scattered ; they will go away. 



ANTS. 



Recipes for Destroying Ants. 



1. Take four ounces of quassia-chips; boil for ten 

 minutes in a gallon of water, dissolving in the liquid 

 while cooling four ounces of soft-soap. 



2. Take one pound of black soap, dissolve it in four 

 gallons of water, and sprinkle the solution through a 

 fine rose over the runs and nests, taking care, however, 

 not to water the roots of the plants with it. 



3. The following is a successful poison : ferrocyanide 

 of potassium, one drachm; raspings of quassia, one 

 drachm ; sugar in sufficient quantity to form a syrup. 

 The ants are said to devour this greedily and die almost 

 immediately. 



4. Fresh Peruvian guano will drive ants from any 



