Important: Safety Warning
This page recommends pest-control substances such as arsenic compounds, strychnine, or cyanide — in some cases applied to food crops. These substances are lethal to humans and animals, and their use is now banned or strictly controlled.
This page directs the use of hazardous substances — such as benzine, gasoline, lye, or strong acids — for household tasks. These materials are highly flammable, corrosive, or poisonous, and the practices described have caused fires, burns, and poisonings.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
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Household and Garden Pests: Apply
Or apply a mixture of 1 pint of benzine and ounce of corrosive sublimate. Apply from oil can or with a brush.
Or and Or and ounce of corrosive sublimate pint of alcohol. ounce of corrosive sublimate pint of turpentine.
HOUSEHOLD AND GARDEN PESTS Or 1 ounce of corrosive sublimate, 1 ounce of camphor, 4 ounces of spirits of turpentine, and pint of wood alcohol. Apply from an oil can or with a brush.
But remember that corrosive sublimate is a deadly poison. Enemies of Bedbugs. The common house cockroach is an enemy of bedbugs, and the little red house ants also kill and eat them; but most persons would consider that to encourage such bedbug exterminators would prove a remedy as bad as the disease.