Mosquitoes: How They Live; How They Carry Disease; How They Are Classified; Hoe They May Be Destoryed (Classic Reprint)

Mosquitoes: How They Live; How They Carry Disease; How They Are Classified; Hoe They May Be Destoryed (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
1331928389
ISBN-13
9781331928386
Series
Mosquitoes
Category
Science
Pages
262
Language
English
Published
2015-07-21
Author
L. O. Howard

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Excerpt from Mosquitoes: How They Live; How They Carry Disease; How They Are Classified; Hoe They May Be Destoryed Some years ago I was visiting a family in the mountains. It was during a dry season, and water was scarce. There were no swamps, no lakes or pools, and the drinking-water was taken from springs; yet mosquitoes were so plentiful that it was necessary to screen the porches, that sitting out of an evening might be made possible. I asked where the water came from in which they washed their clothes, and they replied, as expected, "From a rain-water tank," which, as it happened, was situated under the porch. I investigated the tank and found it literally alive with mosquito larvae. A pint of kerosene stopped the breeding, and as the water was drawn from a faucet near the bottom of the tank the kerosene did not injure it. The indifference of this family as to the source of their local mosquito pest, or rather their combined ignorance of and indifference to the subject of the breeding-places, was at that time - and it was not so very long ago - characteristic of people in general. It was my good fortune, through the wide-spread newspaper accounts of my kerosene experiments in the Catskill Mountains in 1892, to become more or less identified with many practical experiments in the destruction of mosquitoes from that time on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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