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the corners where they hide, and is a more lasting poison than pyrethrum, but 

 from its poisonous nature should be used with care and not left exposed. At the 

 back of book-shelves and presses it is one of the best for roaches, silver-fish, and 

 other insects of this class. 



Burning black gunpowder in the infested kitchens is practised in Germany. 

 The powder is damped and made up into little cones, "spitting jennies" we used 

 to call them as boys. The fumes soon bring out the cockroaches, when they can be 

 swept up and destroyed. 



Mr. T. A. Janvers, writing in Scribner's Magazine, March, 1889, on " Mexican 

 Superstitions and Folk Lore," says that the following is a formula practised by the 

 Mexican villagers to get rid of cockroaches :— " Catch three and pat them into a 

 bottle, and so carry them to where two roads cross. Here hold the bottle upside 

 down, and, as they fall out, repeat aloud three credos. Then all the cockroaches 

 in the house from which these three come will go away." 



HOW TO GET RID OP COCKROACHES. 



In answer to a correspondent, Mr. W. W. Froggatt, Entomologist to the 

 Department of Agriculture, supplies the following note :— 



An article dealing with cockroaches appears in this issue of the Gazette. 

 Among the remedies used in the ordinary house where the run or hiding places o 

 the pests are located, is to puff in Paris green. An excellent bait is powdered 

 chocolate and borax, equal parts ; grind it up in a mortar, so that it is thoroughly 

 mixed ; dust this into their hiding-places or place in bunches here and there, 

 covering up all food at the same time.— Agricultural Gazette of N. S. Wales. 



