. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . OES Clean out every place where water stands.** Dispose of old tin cans, bottles, or what not, so that rain can not possibly be re-tained. * Watch your roof gutters. Empty your ram oarrels of water every week, or screen them closely with fine-meshed wire on top. Change the water everyday in a drinking-pan fordog, cat, poultry, or bird. Watch the watering-trough near your stable. Fill holes in a tree withsoil packed tight, or withc
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . OES Clean out every place where water stands.** Dispose of old tin cans, bottles, or what not, so that rain can not possibly be re-tained. * Watch your roof gutters. Empty your ram oarrels of water every week, or screen them closely with fine-meshed wire on top. Change the water everyday in a drinking-pan fordog, cat, poultry, or bird. Watch the watering-trough near your stable. Fill holes in a tree withsoil packed tight, or withcement. In other words, get ridof, or coat with kerosene, allstagnant, standimg water, and you will get rid of mos-quitoes. If you have a playing fountain, put little fish, likeminnows or goldfish, in the water and they will eat themosquito larvas. If you have a sluggish brook or a stagnant pondnear your house, spray kerosene or coal-oil on the surface;this makes it impossible for the wigglers to breathe whenthey come to the surface, and they die. The coal-oil ap-plication is only necessary at the edges, and is good onlyso long as the oil film is unbroken. •. Uncovered Rain-Barrels Pests 205 Patience is a plaster for all sores. If you want to interest your neighbor or your com-munity in this work, get into touch with the AmericanMosquito Extermination Society, which is doing most ex-cellent work on a large scale. A line to its secretary,Henry Clay Weeks, at Bayside, Long Island, New York,will bring a response to any one who wants to exterminatethe mosquito in a community or in a neighborhood.—/. Horace McFarland, President of the American CivicAssociaton, in Ladies Home Journal, June, 1905 A CRUSADE IN HAVANA Mosquitoes have been eradicated from Havana bydrainage of damp places, removal of receptacles for stand-ing water that otherwise might be a breeding-place for thepest. Adult mosquitoes in rooms or buildings were de-stroyed by formaldehyde, or by the fumes of burningsulp
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