22, BONES. 
into the timbers. They could not fail to be stopped by the clinging 
of the wet tar by the time they had crawled their whole length on it. 
Also it might be expected to be a great preventive to beetles coming 
out from the wood through it. Tar could not well be applied to upper 
surfaces of floors; but where steam power was at hand, probably this 
applied, as hot as could be, by means of a hose, would act as well as it 
has been found to do in clearing maggots in cheese factories, or both 
here and in Canada in clearing that virulent wheat-mill pest, the 
Mediterranean Wheat Mill Moth. 
Plastering up all crannies in which (as noted at p. 18) the beetles 
shelter in cold weather would do some good also; but at present we 
have had little report of the infestation, excepting the vast numbers in 
which it can appear, and also its power of complete destruction of the 
woodwork in the neighbourhood of its feeding localities. 
