This section is from the book "The California Practical Cook Book", by Belle De Graf . Also available from Amazon: The California Practical Cook Book.
Get at the druggist's ten cents, worth of corrosive sublimate, and with a brush or feather, paint the edges of shelves. This should not be put where food will touch it; for it is poison, but it will surely drive the ants away if put in their path. Repeat if necessary.
Buy cheap red wafers, and scatter them about, and cockroaches will eat them and be destroyed. The roots of black hellebore scattered in their haunts is an infallible remedy. Paris green is another.
 
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