Bed-bugs

A correspondent writes as follows to the Country Gentleman: I have ofton seen requests for receipts for the extermination of bed-bugs, and having nearly thirty years of iny life been annoyed by the pests, I can sympathize with all who are troubled by them. At the age of thirty, I moved from an old log house that had as ïnany bugs as any frame house that I ever had lived in, but no more. It was a cold day in February, and I scalded my bedsteads and set them out-doors, cords and all. ' I was much pleased to get into an old house that was tree i'rora bugs - the first house that I had ever known that was free. After ten years, we moved into a frame house, about two years old, and my consternation was very great to find it thoroughly stocked with the pests ; there was not a crack or a crevice that was free ; they were under the base board and over them. After fighting thei eight years, I learned trom a girl that served as chambermaid in a large boarding-house, that bugs could be entirely exterminated for all time. I immediately followed her direction, which was to take grease that was cooked out of ealt pork, to melt it, and to keep it inelted (the vessel can be kept in a pan of coalsj, and to put it with the feather end of a quill in every place whero I could find a bug. It is necessary to see that the bed cords are entirely free from the pests, and I will warrant there will be no more trouble. It is more than thirty years since a bug has been seen in my house.