ANTS, MOLASSES, AND PARIS GREEN.
By Maine Farmer
I took a saucer about half full of molasses, and to this added a tablespoonful of paris green, and stirred well, placed one in the cellar-way and another down cellar, and any time for a week or two, I don't remember just how long, if I went to these saucers, I would see the shelves nearly black with ants coming and going. I left them there until there were no signs of any ants around them. I never found one dead ant. It has been four years since I fed them on molasses and paris green, and yet, strange as it may seem, I never have seen one since. I will say further, that our house is an old one and has been overrun with them for years. Care should be taken to keep all eatables out of the way. The ants disappeared from all parts of the house before they did from around the saucers. This has been my experience with ants.—Maine Farmer.