Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-22 | Page 6 | Vacation Spoilers

F Fi VACATION SPOILERS i II Mosquitoes JI One of of the most universally distrIbuted distributed dis dis- dis- dis of or all pests that levy toll toIl on onman's onman's mans man's blood is the mosquito The only way to bo be sure of a vacation wholly free of mosquito bI bites Is 18 to top p spend it at sea or in the middle of an art absolutely waterless desert At p that there may be a n few of the little nuisances s lurking in dark corners of your jour stateroom certainly swarms of them at the desert or oro o is Defense Defenso against mosquitos ma may be classified under three heads heads Indi vidual family and communal The I I individual can do little UttIe against them Slapping I the most primitive reaction lion tion may do more harm than good I because a swatted mosquito often i leaves es ea her proboscis broken of off In S your skin which makes the irritation all the worse vorse Oil of or citronella is 1 fairly effective until it evaporates most of the advertised nd mosquito ff ending dopes consist of oil of combined with something 0 o slow down i its us evaporation rate i hate tobacco smoke so that hat here at least is 15 a real use for he formerly former much berated weed For families and camping groups Greens and mosquito nets form ef- ef barriers Lake shore cottages tents and even cven the various kinds of houses on wheels now popular all allver Vcr ver tho the country can be given these defenses Mosquitoes will still slip sUp in n when doors are opened but they theyan an be brought down to the last in- in ct b by any anyone one of several effective prays s 's now widely sold These spray contain a substance that Is Js in- in isely poisonous to Insects but armless to man and his domestic When you OU go mosquito with your our trusty spray guna gun a ay special attention to ceilings and I lark tUk corners mosquitoes go upwards o 0 roost and they shun the light Outdoors the old t fashioned smudge ire Ire with its blanket of damp leaves 3 effective The communal attack on mos- mos is often thought o of as something something some- some thing undertaken only In the neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- o of largo large permanent settle settle- ments But many states notably New Jersey and the Gulf GuI Coast states are nc in the war on a wholesale scale with the ultimate aim of ot making heir whole marshy shores mosquito tree free The m mosquito prevention work In Panama is Js a classic example of what can be done In the once fever ridden tropics In Iii a few years jears the Roman Campagna the great stretch of fertile plain that lies bt between een Rome and the sea sea will stand as another monument to mans man's conquest of malaria malaria malatin ma ma- laria latin and the pests that harbor it Community attack on the mosquito problem Is many angled The most i radical and effective means in drain drain- age For mosquitoes spend three o of the four tour life stages stages egg egg gg larva or wIggler and pupa pupa pupa-in In the wat water r. r They arc are air dwellers only as adults Therefore no water no mosquitoes Where drainage is Js not possible the attack usually follows one of three lines oil lines oil spread on the water to smother the larvae arsenical dusts to poison polson them when they eat and the introduction of the hun hungry ry little minnow that has earned the honorable name of mosquito fish This tiny fish is Js something America can well ell be proud of at for ho has been taken to all the lands o of the earth where men are arc trying to rid themselves of the little fever toting tot tot- ing tag winged pests that make night hideous I