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Remedies for. bites. —Dr. FE. O. Peck, of Morristown, N. J., wrote 
to this office last summer stating that he had found glycerin a sover- 
- eign cure for the bites. Touch the bite with glycerin, and in a few 
minutes the pain is gone. According to Dr. Peck it also took the 
pain from bee stings. Dr. Charles A. Nash, of New York City, has 
recently informed the writer, by correspondence, that whenever a 
mosquito bites him he rubs the spot and marks it with a lump of 
indigo. This, he says, ‘‘instantaneously renders the bite absolutely 
of no account,” whether the application is made immediately, the next 
day, or the day after. He has used it since 1878, and lives in a New 
Jersey town where, he writes, ‘‘mosquitoes are a pest every year.” 
He finds the same application to give relief from the stings of the 
yellow jacket. Household ammonia has been found by many persons 
to give relief. 
DESTRUCTION OF LARVA AND ABOLITION OF BREEDING PLACES. 
The following paragraphs are quoted from the writer’s article in 
Bulletin No. 4: 
‘‘Altogether the most satisfactory ways of fighting mosquitoes are 
those which result in the destruction of the larve or the abolition of 
their breeding places. In not every locality are these measures feasi- 
ble, but in many places there is absolutely no necessity for the 
mosquito annoyance. The three main preventive measures are the 
draining of breeding places, the introduction of small fish into fishless 
breeding places, and the treatment of such pools with kerosene. 
These are three alternatives, any one of. which will be efficacious, and 
any one of which may be used where there are reasons against the 
trial of the others. 
** Kerosene on breeding pools.—In 1892 the writer published the first 
account of extensive out-of-doors experiments to determine the actual 
effect upon the mosquitoes of a thin layer of kerosene upon the sur- 
face of water in breeding pools and the relative amount to be used. 
He showed the quantity of kerosene necessary for a given water sur- 
face, and demonstrated further that not only are the larve and pupe 
thereby destroyed almost immediately, but that the female mosquitoes 
are not deterred from attempting to oviposit upon the surface of the 
water, and that they are thus destroyed in large numbers before their 
eggs are laid. Ue also showed approximately the length of time for 
which one such treatment would remain operative. No originality 
was claimed for the suggestion, but only for the more or less exact 
experimentation. The writer, himself, as early as 1867, had found 
that kerosene would kill mosquito larvee, and the same knowledge was 
probably put in practice, although without publicity, in other parts of 
the country. In fact, Mr. H. E. Weed states (Insect Life, Vol. VII, 
