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Show Various Methods Given For Riddance of Ants The quickest method of getting rid of the ants is to find their nest and to destroy the queen and young ants. But as the nest is usually well hidden, it is difficult to find. Follow the ant run between the food and the nest and you can sometimes discover dis-cover where it is located. Often, after it is located, it cannot be destroyed de-stroyed because it is inaccessible. The next thing to do is to launch an offensive to kill the ants that are out running around. There are three common species of ants that build their nests in the house. One is a small, reddish yellow yel-low variety that comes in swarms. They are so small they get into practically everything and are always al-ways on the hunt for sweets. A very large ant, black to brown in color,. also nests indoors and feeds upon sweets. The thief ant, a yellowish specimen speci-men and smaller than the one with a reddish cast, nests in the house and they alone are interested in eating eat-ing fats and grease. The lawn and pavement ant and a species of small black ants found in sandy sections nest outside the house but may, on occasion, enter the house in search of sweets. The location of nests outside the house is' usually a simple matter. Insert carbon bisulfide, a liquid, into the entrance to the ant nest and cover the opening with some dirt and press it down with the heeL The gas formed will penetrate to all parts of the nest. Where the area is too large to treat in this manner, other means used for killing kill-ing outdoor ants will have to be employed. House ants, interested in sweets, can be fed a mixture of sugar syrup and tartar emetic. Use cold water and add as much sugar as will dissolve dis-solve in it. For each two-thirds of an ounce of sugar syrup add one gram of tartar emetic. Pour the mixture into shallow dishes and put them in places where the ants frequent. fre-quent. The ants drink the solution and then walk off to their nests and die. The thief ant, the one interested in fats, can be treated with tartar emetio also. Rub it into fat bacon rind or on a ham bone that has some fat on it Expose the meat in the line that the ants travel and they will soon gather on it. After eating it they will die. Another method of getting rid of this second type of ant is to watch untreated fat scraps until they are loaded with ants, then drop them into boiling water. This second treatment must be persistent to be effective. |