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Another (Mix oz of soft water and oz)
Mix 54 oz. of soft water, and oz. of water of ammonia. Wash the part repeatedly with this lotion until the pain abates.
To Remove Bugs, etc.
The bedsteads ought to be taken down three or four times a year, the screws rubbed with pure oil, and a good manual cleaning given to all its parts. This plan, which has been slightly noticed all poisonous mixtures unnecessary. under the general head of cleanliness, will render To Avoid Injury from Bees.
A wasp or bee swallowed may be killed before These are made with flour, sugar, and red-lead, it can do harm by taking a teaspoonful of common heated in wafer irons.
Ant-Trap.
Procure a large sponge, wash it well and press it dry, which will leave the cells quite open; then sprinkle it with fine white sugar, and place it near where the ants are troublesome. The ants will soon collect upon the sponge, and take up their abode in its cells. It is then only necessary salt dissolved in water. It kills the insect and cures the sting. Salt at all times is a good cure for external stings; sweet-oil, pounded mallows, or onions, powdered chalk made into a paste with water, or weak ammonia, are also efficacious.
If bees swarm upon the head, smoke tobacco and hold an empty hive over the head, and they will enter it.