PART III. 



INSECTS IN THE HOUSE. 



ANTS. 



a. A SMALL bag of sulphur kept in a drawer or cup- 

 board will drive away red ants. 



b. Scatter branches of sweet fern where they congre- 

 gate. 



c. Place half-picked bones of meat here and there on 

 the shelves and wherever the ants resort, and on visiting 

 them an hour afterward they will be covered with ants. 

 Have a bucket of scalding water in hand, and drop the 

 swarming bones into it. Many thousands may be de- 

 stroyed by this plan. 



d. Pieces of coarse sponge dipped in treacle (molasses) 

 water will do as well as the bones. 



e. Sugar-boxes and barrels and anything in the house 

 can be freed from ants by drawing a wide chalk mark 

 jufct around the edge of the top of them. The mark 



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