Ivory Soap Insecticide

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 18, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 51.

Ivory Soap Insecticide

It is stated in some of our exchanges that it has been demonstrated that one five-cent bar of Ivory soap dissolved in five gallons of water makes as perfect an insecticide as kerosene emulsion or whale oil soap, and has no disagreeable odor. It has been used on different aphides, including the wooly aphis of the apple and pear, San Jose scale, and the white fly that feeds on the under side of the grape leaf. It will instantly kill ants on the lawn or elsewhere. If this is true, it certainly will be a benefit to the fruit grower. Presumably there are other soaps that will be as efficacious as Ivory soap.