. The Farm-poultry . into fishless ponds,is feasible, and advisable in many cases wherethe use of kerosene on the surface of thewater would be thought undesirable. In tankssupplying drinking water, for example, fishwould destroy the mosquito larv;e as fast as^hatched. A case is recorded in Insect Life,(Vol. IV., p. 223), where carp were employedin this way with perfect success by an Englishgentleman living in the Kiviera. At SanDiego, Tex., the people use for the purpose alittle fish, called there a perch, the species ofwhich the writer has not been able to ascer-tain. Probably the common vora
. The Farm-poultry . into fishless ponds,is feasible, and advisable in many cases wherethe use of kerosene on the surface of thewater would be thought undesirable. In tankssupplying drinking water, for example, fishwould destroy the mosquito larv;e as fast as^hatched. A case is recorded in Insect Life,(Vol. IV., p. 223), where carp were employedin this way with perfect success by an Englishgentleman living in the Kiviera. At SanDiego, Tex., the people use for the purpose alittle fish, called there a perch, the species ofwhich the writer has not been able to ascer-tain. Probably the common voracious littlestickleback would answer admirably as amosquito destroyer. Probably the best, and certainly the easiest,of wholesome remedies against mosquitoes isthe application of kerosene to the surface ofbreeding pools. The suggestion that kerosenecould be used as a remedy for mosquitoes, isnot new, and has been made more than experiments out of doors and on alarge scale were made in 1S92, by the
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