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common brush for cleaning the inside of bottles. A 

 piece of wire full one tenth of an inch in diameter, 

 about three feet long, doubled, and leaving a small loop 

 in the middle, is closely twisted for the length of about 

 eight or ten inches from the loop; and then the bristles 

 being introduced between the remainder of the two 

 branches of the wire, and these closely twisted upon 

 them, the bristles are immoveably fixed; and thus is 

 formed, after being uniformly sheared, a cylindrical 

 brush, about six inches long and two and a half in 

 diameter. This brush is fastened to the end of a long 

 pole, having a groove about seven or eight inches long 

 at the small end, in which the twisted wire of the brush 

 was laid and bound on with strings. In using the 

 brush, press it on the nest, and turning the pole in the 

 hand the web is entangled with the bristles and remo- 

 ved; or otherwise, you rub the fork of the limb inside 

 and outside with the brush, when the nest and worms 

 are surely killed or brought down. The pole may be 

 longer or shorter according to the distance which you 

 have to reach. Numerous other methods have been 

 from time to time suggested for the destruction of these 

 vermin, but they may be destroyed with great facility 

 by a little industry with the hand or the brush, if re- 

 peated two or three times a week during their season. 

 It has recently been ascertained that some of the insects 

 or millers which deposit their eggs from which the 

 caterpillar is produced, are left in the old nests after 

 the caterpillars have deserted them in the month of 

 June. The destruction of old nests therefore, and the 

 insects contained in them, before they have time to 

 deposit their eggs in August for the next year, will 

 prove the most effectual method of destroying these 

 troublesome vermin for all future seasons and eventu- 

 ally of annihilating the whole tribe. 



