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To Kill Flies
Beat up the yolk of an egg with a table-spoonful each of molasses and black pepper finely ground; set it seed for the destruction of the insects infesting the human head is a time-honored application among country people-beds of the plant being cultivated frequently for the express purpose of furnishing material for the about in shallow plates and the flies will be decoction. The efficiency of this remedy rapidly killed. A sweetened infusion of seems to depend on the presence of the alkaquassia will answer the same purpose. Dis- loid called delphine, which appears to be a solve 1 drachm extract of quassia in a gill of poison especially fatal to insects. water, mix with 1/2 gill molasses and pour the mixture on a flat dish where the flies have access. The quassia acts on them like a narcotic.