Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1918 — Simple Remedies That Will Rid the Living Rooms and Offices of All Cockroaches [ARTICLE]

Simple Remedies That Will Rid the Living Rooms and Offices of All Cockroaches

The nuisance of roaches in offices and living rooms of houses can be reduced, if not removed entirely, by the elimination of all attractive substances, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Roaches will not frequent rooms unless they find some available food material, and If such materials can be kept from living rooms and offices or scrupulous care exercised to see that no such material is placed In drawers where it can leave an attractive odor or fragments of food, the roach nuisance can be largely restricted to places where food necessarily must be kept. In such places the storage of food material in insect-proof containers or ice boxes, together with thor-ough-going cleanliness, will go a long way toward preventing serious annoyance. Roaches as household pests may be controlled by the use of various poisons, repellents, and fumigants, and by trapping. The more efficient of these remedies are powders, particularly sodium fluorid, a liberal dusting of which about the Infested premises furnishes an efficient means for the elimination of these pests. Also one part powdered borax and three parts finely pulverized chocolate sprinkled freely about infested premises. Cockroaches are the commonest and most offensive of the house pests. Four kinds are often found in houses, offices, etc. These are the American roach, a native insect; the European or Oriental roach, known in England as the black beetle; the Australian roach; and the little German roach, commonly known in this country as the Croton bug.