Show insecticides do not kill insects certain types of trick preparations should be j guarded against I 1 prepared by the tha united states department ox of agriculture ot of pounds of insecticides fungicides and disinfectants disinfect ants lire are sold annually in complete 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 again against sto say federal officials many are warned farmers Fan ners suburban dwellers house ches and others are alre warned by the against buying preparations prat ions to be added to feed and drilling water which their makers say will control external parasites on poultry and other animals consuming them thein neither should anyone be misled by the theoretically plausible claims made fur preparations designed to be absorbed orbed by the sap of trees to control fungous diseases and to L kill 1111 insects on and in the trees creps preps ral ions tt to be hung in the biome iome to 0 o drive away nil all household pests bests purify the air and to prevent 0 are re als also 0 branded as useless by the ofil officials ceals ono one of the misbranded branded preparations sold to control lice mites ticks and fleas on poultry and other animals by being taken into the system with the food and drinking water of faals of the administration found faund could be bought for IS 18 cents a gallon this preparation ro retailed tn in small containers melted belted the producer M gj a gal gallon lorl neither either this mixture nor any ii of the he many similar mixtures could produce the results claimed fortham for them control diseases liquids powders and capsules to be placed in a hole bole in the tree under the bark or in the sol soil and paints to bo be applied to the trunk of the tree have been examined for their alleged powers to control fungous diseases and to kill when according to the advertising literature the substances are arc taken ip by the sap eap and carried to all parts of the tree not only Is 13 the value of these rem remedies edles very questionable the ad ministration reports but many of them actually harm the trees they may cause serious camago to shade and orchard trees and in case of the latter endanger the crop through h failure to control insects and d dis 1 eases cases housewives nrc are especially cautioned ii t 0 anses d not to believe the glitta glittering p promises r 0 made for attractive little cases ases containing a chemical which acrive when merely hung in a room will drive away anway or kill moths ants roaches flies and mosquitoes and at the same time disinfect the room purify the air and prevent disease |