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insects might lodge or breed. Powdered alum, she states, 

 may be sprinkled upon carpets already laid and then 

 brushed or swept into their meshes with no injury to the 

 carpets and with the certainty of banishment to many 

 insect pests, including both fleas and moths. 



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