SUMMER PESTS
A USEFUL RECIPE Mosquitoes and other insects are more than usually troublesome in the summer, and holiday-makers and country residents generally suffer great discomfort. There are several applications which, after they are applied, will keep most insects away for some time, and these are particularly useful at night. The two most useful for banishing insects are oil of lavender and pennyroyal oils, suitably diluted by a chemist with alcohol and water. Other protectives are the oils of cloves, eucalyptus, rosemary and cajeput, which should also be obtained from a chemist. But a combination of drugs is better than one alone, and the following will be found efficacious:— Oil of lavender, 24 minims; spirit of camphor, lioz.; oil of eucalyptus, 3 drachms; soap linament, 3oz. Just the merest trace is to be smeared over the wrists, hands, ankles, and so on, where the insects are troublesome.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 8
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147SUMMER PESTS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 8
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