488 STANDARD RECEIPTS. 



little sugar, and distribute on shallow plates and box boards, and place 

 in the corners of the kitchen and pantry, where they frequent. In the 

 darkness they will feast themselves on it. After three or four nights 

 renewal of the preparation, no cockroaches will be found on the 

 premises. 



Moths in Carpets. Wring a coar,se towel out of clear water, 

 spread it smoothly on the carpet, iron it dry with a good hot iron, re- 

 peating the operation on all parts of the carpet suspected of being in- 

 fested with moths. No need to press hard, and neither the pile nor 

 color of the carpet will be injured, and the moths will be destroyed by 

 the heat and steam. 



RATS AND MICE. 



To Kill or Drive Away Rats. i. Mix some fine plaster of 

 Paris with an equal quantity of flour ; put the mixture in the place 

 infested by the vermin, and a vessel full of water beside it. The rats 

 will devour the mixture and then drink; whereupon the plaster, brought 

 in contact with the water, will become solid, and like a stone in their 

 stomachs, and will cause their death. This method is evidently 

 highly preferable to the use of arsenic, which is always attended with 

 danger. 



2 . Mix up the following and put on bread or cheese : 



3 ounces Sugar. 

 1 pound Flour, 

 8 ounces Sulphur. 

 8 ounces Phosphorus. 



3. When a house is infested by rats which refuse to nibble at toasted 

 cheese, and the usual baits, a few drops of the highly scented oil of rho- 

 dium, poured on the bottom of a cage top, will always attract before 

 morning. Where a trap baited with all manner of edibles had failed to 

 attract a single rat, the oil of rhodium caused it to be completely crowded 

 night after night. 



4. Mix powdered nux vomica with oatmeal, and lay it in their haunts, 

 observing proper caution to prevent accidents. 



5. (PHOSPHORUS PASTE.) Take of phosphorus one part, liquify 

 it in twenty parts of luke-warm water, pour the whole into a mortar, and 

 add immediately twenty parts of rye meal ; when cold, mix twenty parts 

 of butter melted, and fifteen parts of sugar. If the phosphorus is in a 

 finely-divided state, the ingredients may be all mixed at once, without 



