Show a DST8OYINGANTS If you can find the nest of the ants says a writer In Farm and Fireside you can destroy or drive them away by making mak-ing a hole with a stick in the center of it and pouring Into it a little bisuiphid of carbon and then covering It over with a pece of cloth to keep in the fume which are destructive to animal life isisulrhul of carbon resemWes goso ne in being very explosive and volatile If you cannot can-not get Ujla material using a plentiful supply of gasolene or kerosene will ac complsh the same purpose though not so effectually It will not do to use saso Ine or krosono around plum trees hence if the ants make their nests around the hot I of then trS as is very likely the case you will find kerosene emulsion a safe awl < l effective material to use providing provid-ing the ground Is soaked with it cose to the trees The ants are most likely to cause Injury around the base of th ° tree and not to the branches trunk or leaves but they can easily be kept out of the trees by surrounding It with a band of cotton or oakum kept smeared with tar or thick kerosense emulsion |