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Show VERMIN ATTRACTED BY FOOD If No Scraps Are Around There Will Be Little Trouble With Ants or Roaches. The surest way to keep n house free from ants is to leave no food lying ahout on shelves or in open places, where they can tvaeh it. Ants go where they find food, and if the food supplies nf the household are kept in ant-proof metal containers or in ice hoxes, ami if all foods that may happen hap-pen to be scattered by children or others oth-ers is cleaned up promptly, the ant nuisance will he Miuiit. Cake, bread, sugar, meat, and like substances, are especially attractive to the ants, and should he kept from them. Koaches 'will not frequent rooms unless they find some available food material, and if such materials can be kept from living rooms and offices or scrupulous ' care exercised to see that no such material is placed in drawers where it can leave an attractive attrac-tive odor or fragments of food, the roach nuisance can be largely restricted restrict-ed to places where food necessarily must be kept. |