. 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 .. . ar. WHEISr YOU RID YOUR OWN PLACE Once you rid your own place ofreceptacles that hold stagnant water,if you still have mosquitoes, be surethat your neighbor has not done as youhave done. Get him to follow your ex-ample, and then look around the neigh-borhood for a swamp, a sluggish brook,or a pond. These suspicious places maybe treated with kerosene, which shouldbe applied so that the entire surface is covered with an oilfilm; whe
. 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 .. . ar. WHEISr YOU RID YOUR OWN PLACE Once you rid your own place ofreceptacles that hold stagnant water,if you still have mosquitoes, be surethat your neighbor has not done as youhave done. Get him to follow your ex-ample, and then look around the neigh-borhood for a swamp, a sluggish brook,or a pond. These suspicious places maybe treated with kerosene, which shouldbe applied so that the entire surface is covered with an oilfilm; when the film is broken, the protection is inefficient,as any opening will allow thetiny wigglers room to the kerosene on with awatering pot having a finerose, or use a syringe with afine rose. There is also a prep-aration in the open marketcalled phinotas oil that isgood, and w^hich is free fromsome of the objections of kero-sene. Then, too, small fish,like killies or minnows, fromhalf an inch to four inches in length, can be put into thewater. These are voracious eaters of mosquito larvse inall the stages. Goldfish are good for fountains. Remember,. In Hollow Trees Pests 203 Nature when she adds difficulties, adds brains. —Emerson however, that mosquitoes do not breed in open, deep water;but only on the edge of ponds or in still eddies of runningbrooks. So do not Vv^aste your kerosene 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
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