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Show DESTROY MOSQUITO LARVAE WITH OIL r t NEW YORK, Aug., 1. Destruction of mosquito larvae by petroleum and the weeding out of shrubbery in moist places In and about the Long Island and New Jersey coast resorts has almost eliminated elimi-nated the pests, according to reports collected col-lected by the Herald. Experiments with oil began two or three years ago appear to have been entirely en-tirely successful. The sprinkling of pools with coal oil has been reinforced by systematic sys-tematic ditching at many points, which has completely obliterated the damp spots where the mosquitoes were in former years bred by the million. |