To Destroy Cockroaches Ants And Other Household Vermin Recipe

Hellebore, rubbed over with molasses, and put round the places that

cockroaches frequent, is a very effectual poison for them. Arsenic,

spread on bread and butter, and placed round rat or mouse holes, will

soon put a stop to their ravages. Quicksilver and the white of an egg,

beat together, and laid with a feather round the crevices of the

bedsteads and the sacking, is very effectual in destroying bugs in them.

To kill flies, when so numerous as to be troublesome, keep cobalt, wet

with spirit, in a large shallow plate. The spirit will attract the

flies, and the cobalt will kill them very soon. Black pepper is said to

be good to destroy them--it should be mixed, so as to be very strong,

with a little cream and sugar. Great care is necessary in using the

above poisons, where there are any children, as they are so apt to eat

any thing that comes in their way, and these poisons will prove as fatal

to them as to vermin, (excepting the pepper.) The flour of sulphur is

said to be good to drive ants away, if sprinkled round the places that

they frequent. Sage is also good. Weak brine will kill worms in gravel

walks, if kept moist with it a week in the spring, and three or four

days in the fall.