TO REMOVE COCKROACHES. Place cucumber-rinds in plenty around their haunts, renewing them every week or two. TO DRIVE AWAY FLIES. I. Dip a bunch of plantain or fleawort in milk, and hang it up in the room, and the flies will leave. 2. Mix together a teaspoonful of ground black pepper, a teaspoonful of brown sugar, and two teaspoonful of milk. Place it on a plate where the flies are most troublesome. 3. Take half an ounce, each, of sugar and quassia in coarse powder, place them in a cup, and add a pint of boiling water. |