26 AUGUST 1922, Page 15

GOATS AND BUGS.

[To ma EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Two or three years ago our servants' quarters became infested with bugs, which the application of various remedies failed to eradicate. This spring, however, our men are rejoicing in the apparently complete extermination of the pest, and they attribute it to the fact that about New Year we began to keep milk-goats in an adjoining outhouse. They declare that it is a fact well known in China that bugs cannot exist where there is a smell of goats! Can any of your readers say whether such a belief exists elsewhere, and whether it can have any scientific warrant P—I am, Sir, &o., SCRIITATOR. Moukden, Manchuria.