Show insecticides 1 ides do not kill insects certain types of trick tria preparations should be guarded against prepared by the united states staten department of 91 agriculture thousands of pounds of insecticides fungicides and disinfectants disinfect ants are sold annually in comp complete tte harmony with the insecticide act as enforced by the food drug and insecticide administration united states department of agriculture but certain types of trick preparations are also being offered for sale and should be guarded against say federal offie officials lills many are warned farmers suburban dwellers housewives and ot outliers others liers are warned by the administration against buying preparations to be added to feed and drinking water which their makers say will control external parasites on poultry and other animals consuming I 1 them neither should anyone be misled by the theoretically plausible claims made for preparations designed to be absorbed by the sap of trees io to control fungous diseases and to kill insects on and in the trees preparations to he be hung in the home to drive away all house household hold pests purify the air and to pre prevent v ent disease are a also aiso branded as useless by the officials one of the misbranded branded preparations sold to control lice mites ticks I 1 and fleas on poultry and other animals by being taken into the system with the food and drinking water officials of the administration found could be bought for 18 cents a gallon this preparation retailed in small containers netted the producer 04 a gallon neither this mixture nor any of the ninny many similar mixtures could produce the results claimed fortham for them control diseases liquids powders and capsules to be placed in a hole in the tree under the bark or in the soll sell and paints to be applied to the trunk of the tree ha have ve been examined for their alleged powers to control fungous diseases and to L kill 1111 insects when accor according flIng to the advertising literature the ilie substances tire anken up ID by the sap and carried to ill nil parts of the tree not only Is the value of these reme remedies dibs very questionable the id ad ministration reports ports ic but many ol 01 0 thorn them actually harm the trees they may cause serious damage to shide and orchard trees and in case of the latter endanger the ibe crop through failure to control insects and diseases housewives are especially cautioned not to believe the glitt glittering erAng promises made for attractive little cases containing a chemical which when merely hung in a room wili will drive away or kill moths ants roaches flies and mosquitoes and at th e same time disinfect the room purify the air and prevent disease I 1 |