Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-26 | Page 4 | What to Do with the Mosquito

WHAT TO DO WITH THE MOSQUITO. Mosquitoes, when their punctures , poison, are worse than the hives 1 This is the season of the year when the little, busy, buzzers annoy and1 irritate, and make walks In the garden gar-den or lawn parties les6 pleasurable than they might be The Oregon Agricultural college has ben studying the mosquito nuisance, nuis-ance, and recommends as repellants spine; of camphor, oil of pennyroyal and oi! of peppermint They are applied ap-plied b putting a few drops on a 1 bath towel and rubbing the towel on the face or suspending it above the pillow. A good combined repellant is made of essential oil of orange. 30 grains: camphorated alcohol, 30 grain?,; oil of cedar, 15 grains, or of equal parts of castor oil, oil of lavender lav-ender &nd alcohol Inside smudges are produced by burning either camphor or pyrethrum powder Burning a ball of camphor the size of a hen's egg over a small j lamp makes an effective smudge l Pyrethrum is first made Into a ball by moistening it in water and moulding mould-ing Into cones as large as chocolate drops, and then placed in shallow dishes and burned by lighting at the apex One cone elves smoke enou.qh for the average size room Rub moistened toilet soap over the wounds, or apply either ammonia o alcohol to the punctures as a remedy for tho bites