. 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 .. . on deep runningwater, though it is necessary to protect the deep waterin rain barrels or cisterns. Also, do not mix fish and kero-sene—use one or the other, not both in the same pond. WHERE TO LOOK FOR MOSQUITOES If you are troubled with mosquitoes, the kind thatare dangerous, remember that somewhere within six hun-dred yards of your house you will tind the female mos-quito laying her eggs in some one of these stagnant-waterplaces
. 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 .. . on deep runningwater, though it is necessary to protect the deep waterin rain barrels or cisterns. Also, do not mix fish and kero-sene—use one or the other, not both in the same pond. WHERE TO LOOK FOR MOSQUITOES If you are troubled with mosquitoes, the kind thatare dangerous, remember that somewhere within six hun-dred yards of your house you will tind the female mos-quito laying her eggs in some one of these stagnant-waterplaces:— In some place of standing water. In a cesspool. A sewer-inlet. A rain-water barrel. A horse-trough. A roof gutter that is clogged. A broken bottle. An old tin can. Broken crockery that holdswater. A water-pan for dog, cat,or chickens. A water receptacle for agrindstone. * * A hole in a tree. A watering-pan for birds. A garden fountain. Any place where water stands for five days or tomato can in a shady spot, with water in it, has beenfound to breed sufficient mosquitoes to keep a family un-happy all summer. It is not true that mosquitoes breed. In Empty Cans 204 Home and Health Things dont turn up in this world until somebody turnsthem up.—Garfield in vines or grass. The female must have stagnant waterin v/hich to deposit her eggs. HOW TO GET RID OF MOSQUITOES 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, likeminno
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