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No. 2. Dust furs with powdered alura^ working it in 

 well at the roots of the hair. Do not air woollen 

 articles and furs in the summer sunshine. Thej should 

 be put aside in the early spring, and left untouched 

 until October. 



3Ioths iiz Carpets, Woollens^ etc. 



a. Several pieces of camphor gum^ as large as hick= 

 ory-nuts, should be packed in with all woollen g;irinents 

 and furs. Infested garments or furs should be put in 

 a tight sack or trunk, and, after adding a half-ounce of 

 chloroform, the sack or trunk should be closed as nearly 

 air-tight as possible. The vapor will kill the insects, 



Z). For furniture and carpets, lieavj paper, wet with 

 carbolic acid or spirits of turpentine^ will kill larvee 

 already at work. This should be placed under the edge 

 of the carpet where the miscliief is generally done, and 

 in furniture crowded back in the deep folds. Eussian 

 leather, cedar bark or boughs, tobacco-leaves, and even 

 red pepper, are said to prevent the moths from laying 

 eggs. 



G. Another way of destroying moths in carpets is to 

 take a w^et sheet or other cloth, lay it upon the carpet, 

 and then run a hot flat-iron over it, so as to convert the 

 water into steam, which permeates the carpet ])enentli 

 and destroys the moth and her eggs. It can ])e done 

 without taking up the carpet, and has proved, after 

 trials^ remarkably efficient. 



