1832. To Kill Cockroaches

A teacupful of well-bruised Plaster of Paris, mixed with double the quantity of oatmeal, to which add a little sugar (the latter is not essential). Strew it on the floor or in the chinks were they frequent.

1305. Trap For Snails

Snails are particularly fond of bran; if a little is spread on the ground, and covered over with a few cabbage leaves or tiles, they will congregate under them in great numbers, and by examining them every morning, and destroying them, their numbers will be materially decreased.

1306. To Destroy Slugs

Slugs are very voracious, and their ravages often do considerable damage, not only to the kitchen garden, but to the flower-beds also. If, now and then, a few slices of turnip be put about the beds, on a summer or autumnal evening, the slugs will congregate thereon, and may be destroyed.

1307. To Keep Moths, Beetles, Etc, From The Clothes

Put a piece of eamnhor a line long, or some aromatic herbs, in the drawers, among linen or woollen clothes, and neither moth nor worm will come near them.

2178. Bugs

Spirits of naphtha rubbed with a small painter's brush into every part of a bedstead is a certain way of getting rid of bugs. The mattrass and binding of the bed should be examined, and the same process attended to, as they generally harbour more in these parts than in the bedstead. Three pennyworth of naphtha is sufficient for one bed.