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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 882, 20 November 1874, Page 3

The Journal of Chemistry publishes a recipe for the destruction of insects, which, if it be one-half as efficacious as it is stated to be. will prove invaluable. Hot alum water is a recent suggestion as an insecticide. It will destroy red and black ants, cockroaches, spiders, chintz bugs, and all the crawling pests which infest our houses. Take 2 lbs of alum and disolve it in three or four quarts of boiling water; let it stand on the fire till the alum disappears; apply it with a brush, while nearly boiiiug hot, to every joint and crevice in your closets, bedsteads, pantry-shelves and the like. Brush the crevices iu the floor of the skirting or mop boards, if you suspect that they harb -ur vermin. If, in whitewashing a ceiling, plenty of aluin is added to the lime, it will also serve to keep insects at a distance. Cockroaches will flee the paint which has been washed iu cool alum water.

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