Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1870 — To Destroy Ants. [ARTICLE]

To Destroy Ants.

1. Pour, copiously, hot water, as near the boiling point as possible, down their burrows and over their hills, and repeat the operation several times. 2. Entrap the ants by means of narrow sheets of stiff paper er strips of board, covered with some sweet sticky substance; the ants are attracted by the 'sweets, and sticking fast, can be destroyed as often as a sufficient number are entrapped. Lay fresh bones around their haunts; they will leave everything else to attack, these, and when thus accumulated, can be dipped into hot water. 4. Pour two or three spoonfuls of coal oil into their holes, and they will abandon the nest. 5. Bury a few slices of onions in their nests, and they will abandon them.— Western Rural.