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around the edge, so as to seal up the box completely and leave no 
cracks. These boxes with care will last many years. With thorough 
preliminary treatment it will not be necessary to use the tar-impregnated 
paper sacks sold as moth protectors, which may be objectionable on 
account of the odor. 
In the case of cloth-covered furniture and cloth-lined carriages, 
which are stored or left unused for considerable periods in summer, it 
will probably be necessary to spray them twice or three times, viz, in 
April, June, and August, with benzine or naphtha, to protect them 
from moths. These substances can be applied very readily with any 
small spraying device. and will not harm the material, but caution 
must be exercised on account of their inflammability. Another means 
of protecting such articles is to sponge them very carefully with a dilute 
solution of corrosive sublimate in alcohol, made just strong enough not 
to leave a white stain. 
The method of protection adopted by one of the leading furriers of 
Washington, who also has a large business and experience in storing 
costly furs, etc., is practically the course already outlined. Furs when 
received are first most thoroughly and vigorously beaten with small 
sticks, to dislodge all loosened hair and the larvee or moths. They are 
then gone over carefully with a steel comb and packed away in large 
boxes lined with heavy tar roofing paper, or in closets similarly lined 
with this paper. An examination is made every two to four weeks, 
and, if necessary at any time, any garment requiring it is rebeaten 
and combed. During many years of experience in this climate, which 
is especially favorable to moth damage, this merchant has prevented 
any serious injury from moths. 
COLD STORAGE, 
The best method of protection, and the one now commonly adopted 
by dealers in carpets, furs, etc., is cold storage. In all large towns 
anyone can avail himself of this means by patronizing storage com- 
panies, and safety will be guaranteed. 
The most economical degree of cold to be used as a protection 
from clothes moths and allied insects destructive to woolens and furs 
has been definitely determined by the careful experiments carried out 
at the instance of Doctor Howard by Dr. Albert M. Read, manager of 
a large storage warehouse company in Washington, D.C. These experi- 
ments demonstrated that a temperature maintained at 40° F. renders 
the larval or other stages of these insects dormant and is thoroughly 
effective. The larvee, however, are able to stand a steady temperature 
as low as 18° F. without apparently experiencing any ill results. Doctor 
Read’s experiments have extended over two years, and his later results 
as reported by Doctor Howard are very interesting. They have demon- 
strated that while a temperature kept uniformly at 18° F. will not destroy 
