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Show How to Kill Anta. Ordinarily in households tho rod ant Is not a nulsanco from tho actual loss which It cau-os by consuming food products, but from Its inordinate faculty of gottlng Into things. It is attracted by almost everything in tho houso, from sugar to shoo polish, nnd from bath sponges to dond cockroaches. It (iooms to breed with onorroous focundlty. and tho- Incidental killing off of u thoueand or so h is llttlo uffoot upon tho apparent number. A house badly Infested with thoso oroaturos is almost uninhabitable Thoy form their nests in almost any socludocl spot, botweou tho walla, or under tho floors, or behind tho base-boards, or among Iho trnsh In somo old box or trunk, or In the lawn or garden walk just outside thu door. Iu each of thoso n'osts several sev-eral females will bn found, oaoh luylng bor hundreds of oggs, and mtondod by rotlnuo of workors curing for the larva?, nnd starting out from dawn till lark oa foraging expeditions iu long, V ' tlnglo fllos, like Indians on tho warpath. war-path. Our llrst recommendation is to Cnd I tho point from which thoy all como. Thoy rnny have built tho nost in some accessible spot, in which case a little korosono oil will ond aim-go part, if not all, of tho trouble If tho nest is in tho wall, or undor the floor, nnd taking tak-ing up a board will not bring It within roach, find tho noarost accesslblo point nnd dovoto your cnorglos to killing tho nnta off as thoy appear, yhero the nests uro outsldo nothing Is caster than to find thom nnd to destroy tho Inhubt- j lants with korosono or blsulphido of carbon. Tho nests arc almost always Id tho vicinity of tho houso. Tho ants nro peculiarly susceptible to tho action of pyrothrutn In any form, bo it Persian Per-sian or Dalmatian ponder or buhnch, und u froo and porslstent uso of Ibis powdor will accomplish much. Dr. C. V. Illloy. |