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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.pets
Subject: Re: How do you kill roaches?
Message-ID: <691@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:24:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 21:24:48 1985
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Summary: 

In article <307@harvard.ARPA> sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki) writes:
>I've just moved into a nice apartment that suits me in every way with
>the exception of the roaches. I would like to get rid of them forever.
>I know that this is impossible, and would appreciate any hints on how
>to come close to this.
>
>The problem is that I have pets, a cat, and several aquariums with
>relatively delicate fish...

Go to your local pharmacy and get a bottle of powdered boric  acid.  Spread
the  powder  any  place  the  roaches  are likely to walk through it (under
sinks, under appliances, near cracks, along base boards, etc.).  Wait a few
weeks.  The roach problem will slowly fade out to nothing and stay that way
as long as the acid is left in place.

The stuff won't hurt your cat (it tastes terrible) or  your  fish  (if  you
keep it out of their tank).  It works by damaging the roaches' body surface
which causes them to die of dehydration.

I'm told that baking soda and household scouring powder will  have  similar
effects, but I've never tried them.  Boric acid has always worked for me.

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