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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 6.—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 
oreater 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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