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Bed-bug Poison
Mix together come. This mixture will last 2 years. Or: 2 ounces camphor, 4 ounces spirits of turpen- Take chloride of lime, and scatter it dry all tine, 1 ounce corrosive sublimate, and 1 pint around, and into their holes, and wherever alcohol. they haunt, and they will leave at once.