Architect and engineer . d and intohouses. They are hollowing out cellarbeams, eating into porches, cutting theiralmost irresistable way through floors intoliving rooms, where they are attacking may suddenly discover their floors cavingin underneath them, and find staggeringrepair bills in their mailbox. The Termite Investigations Committeeis constantly receiving requests for in-formation on how to control this invasionof termites from points well distributed Fig. I — a — Map showing inblack the area of the UnitedStates subject to damage bysubterranean termites. b—Map showing in black thearea
Architect and engineer . d and intohouses. They are hollowing out cellarbeams, eating into porches, cutting theiralmost irresistable way through floors intoliving rooms, where they are attacking may suddenly discover their floors cavingin underneath them, and find staggeringrepair bills in their mailbox. The Termite Investigations Committeeis constantly receiving requests for in-formation on how to control this invasionof termites from points well distributed Fig. I — a — Map showing inblack the area of the UnitedStates subject to damage bysubterranean termites. b—Map showing in black thearea of the United States sub-ject to damage by dry-woodtermites. furniture. They are termites, commonlybut erroneously known as white ants, andthe Free Natural History Museum of theAcademy of Natural Sciences would likethe public to wake up to the fact that theyare around. Because, said the curator ofthe department of entomology of the mu-seum, if people arent made aware thatthe pest is here in increasing numbers, they. throughout the United States. From thesenumerous requests the committee hasgained the impression that the termiteproblem is not a local condition but thatdamage by termites is national in its dis-tribution. ( Fig. 1 ). Termite a Primitive InsectThe termite problem arises because ofmans interference with the fine balance in THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 34 ? FEBRUARY, NINETEEN THIRTY-FOUR nature. Termites are primitive insects re-lated to cockroaches. In the normal schemeof nature they are the scavengers of theforest, feeding upon fallen timber, stumps,and other dead and decaying wood. Early Americans made little or no effortto conserve large quantities of wood forany considerable period of time. In Cali-fornia our houses were made of adobe w^ithcomparatively small quantities of woodavailable to termites for food. As the landwas subdivided boundaries were markedby fence lines. As our roads were builtthey were paralleled on either side byfences, and later these s
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