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may be made during the summer months for the discovery and destruction of the un- 

 welcome guest. 



It will unquestionably prove an exceedingly difficult pest to dislodge. The ordin- 

 ary applications of camphor, pepper, tobacco, turpentine, carbolic acid, &c., are powerless 

 against it. An effectual means of destruction, and preventive of new invasions is yet to 

 be discovered. The free use of benzine has been recommended to saturate cotton with 

 it, and fill the joinings of the floors and crevices beneath the base boards. This is to be 

 done during the winter months, at which time the insect will be occupying these retreats, 

 either in its perfect beetle form, or as eggs deposited for another brood. To either of these 

 the direct application of benzine would be fatal, but on account of its extreme inflamma- 

 bility it would require to be used with great caution. Kerosene oil used in a similar 

 manner would doubtless be equally efficient. 



From the serious nature of its depredations, the secrecy with which it conducts them 

 and the extreme difficulty with any known appliance of eradicating it — it becomes very 

 important that it should from the outset be combatted by every means which may give 

 promise of success. 



