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during the spring and summer. If carpets are used and they 

 become infested, it is well to lay wet cloths along the edges and 

 use a hot flatiron ou them. If this is properly done it will force 

 the steam down through the carpet, killing not only the moths but 

 also any carpet beetles that may be feeding beneath. 



All garments liable to be attacked by carpet beetles or clothes 

 moths, if not to be used during the summer, should be thoroughly 

 shaken and then packed away in tight paper bags, or in paste- 

 board boxes with a strip of paper pasted around the edge of the 

 cover so as to leave no crack. 



Ants. 



Small red ants often infest dwelling houses and become an intol- 

 erable nuisance, not because of the amount they eat, but because 

 of their habit of getting into sugar and other sweets. 



The important thing is to find their nests, for it is then a com- 

 paratively easy matter to destroy the entire colony. It may be 

 that the removal of a board where they come into a room will 

 expose their headquarters, when a little kerosene poured over it 

 will desti'oy all the inmates and put an end to the nuisance. 



If they come from some ant-hill outside of the house, they can 

 be destroyed by making holes about a foot apart in the hill and 

 pouring a teaspoonful of bisulphide of carbon into each and stamp- 

 ing the ground down. The bisulphide of carbon quickly evapo- 

 rates, and permeating the ground, destroys all in the colony. 



C. H. Fernald, 



Entomologist. 



