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Formula 5. — For ants that will not eat sweets but prefer grease and meat: 

 Work small quantities of tartar emetic into grease or pieces of bacon rind. 



Formula 6. — For control of large black carpenter ants: Mix 1 teaspoonsul of 

 paris green with one-half pound of chopped meat or hamburg steak. Cook the 

 meat in a frying pan sufficiently to brown it slightly to delay decay. Granulate or 

 pick it apart and place it in a tin box, with a tight-fitting cover, through which 

 holes large enough for the entrance of the ants are punched. The box with poison 

 should then be attached to a tree, log, porch rail, or wherever the ants forage. 



Formula 7. — When lawns or gardens are covered with small ant hills, scatter 

 broadcast a mixture of 1 ounce of paris green and 1 pound of brown sugar at the 

 rate of 1 pound of the mixture per 10,000 square feet needing treatment. A second 

 treatment is usually necessary after a period of 10 days. Scatter the mixture so 

 finely divided that birds or pets will not pick it up. 



Community Effort in Ant Control 



When ants are very abundant throughout a city block or over a 

 greater area, the best results are obtained by a community campaign 

 directed by the local authorities on the advice of specialists familiar 

 with ant control. Such campaigns have been very successful in the 

 South in combating the Argentine ant and doubtless would prove 

 useful for controlling other ants elsewhere. With certain species, 

 individual effort at control is not effective, particularly if there are so 

 many ants in the neighborhood that a single property is rapidly 

 reinfested. 



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