Pow-Wows, or Long Lost Friend, by John George Hoffman, [1820], at sacred-texts.com
A RECIPE FOR DESTROYING SPRING-TAILS OR GROUND-FLEAS.
Take the chaff upon which children have been lying in their cradles, or take the dung of horses, and put that upon the field, and the spring-tails or ground-flees will no longer do you any injury.