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Of late years the mos.quito 

 pest has lost its hold in those 

 cities following and exercising mod- 

 ern methods of mosquito exter- 

 mination, and San Antonio has 



Mosquito Wigglers 



(Upper Row, Nearly Full Grown Mosquitoes). 



(Lower Row, Larval Mosquitoes in Remote. 



Stadia of Development. 



done its share in that line. _ Much 

 of this also is due the oiling of 

 streets by the county and city- 

 authorities. In former years it 

 was impossible to have a good 

 nights rest on account of the 

 mosquito pests .throughout the 

 warm summer months — up to late 

 in fall; but, since the oiling of 

 stagnating waters and breeding 

 places of the mosquito have been 

 inaugurated and especially also 

 the oiling of streets, the mosquito 

 pest, and in fact, all sorts of 

 annoying insects have been driven 



to outside haunts, as it is simply 

 impossible for such insects to with- 

 stand the odor of oil. Inhabitants 

 along oiled streets in particular, 

 corroborate this, and they are 

 relieved of a great annoying insect 

 burden since .the city's streets 

 have been subjected to occasional 

 oiling along the carlines, etc., and 

 the terrible dust nuisance is also 

 thereby abated and the streets 

 put in a better trafic condition. 



■Stinging Apparatus 

 (Suction Tube and Dagger) of a Full Grown Mosquito 



