Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-02-25
MOTHS RAvAGES.
How Furs, Rugs, Robes and Wraps
 May He Saved.

May He saved.
 In the matter of moths the tradition al ounce of prevention is worth many pounds of cure the best way to prevent their ravages being to lay away furs and woolens just as the season for wearing them is over. The worst month for moths is said to be June, and before that time all articles likely to be mo- tested by them should be securely packed away.
 Fortunately furs, which are the most difficult thing to protect from the moth, are also the first which may be laid aside for the season. Before this IS done have them beaten thoroughly, l. G., whipped well with a small rattan, which Is what furriers use tor the same purpose. Then examine the felt care fully, and where you find the hairs mat ted tightly together part them and wet the spot thoroughly, yet daintily, so as not to touch the adjacent hair, with garment, with layers of newspapers be- tween each fold, and gum csmphor sprinkled on the fur, and, ii ally, either sew the bundle in an old sheet or wrap it in newspapers, pasting the edges. If this is done carefully and speedily, you may rely with comparative certainty that your goods are beyond reach of the small destroy T.
 The best moth-proof chests are those made of cedar, to the odor of which the insect has an uncoIquerable aversion, and the camphor-wood chests which seamen bring rom the East Indies. The genuine cedar chest Is massive and costly affair, made of inch cedar plank, with walnut holdings and iron clamps. Fortunately for people of moderate means, Yankee ingenuity has contnved cedar packing trunks which answer all purposes of utiiIty, and which are far less expensive. Ti.ese are the ordinary packing trunk lined with a thin veneer lng of cedar, which, though less than the eighth of an inch thick, fits closely Ill every crack and corner, and renders the trunk at once moth-proof and air tight No camphor Is needed in such chest; only be careful to see that no traces of moths are ill the garments be- fore packing, and lay away smoothly with newspaper layers between eacn strata of clothes as an additional pre- caution.
 Paper barrels with close-ftting heads form another effectually moth-proot case. The paper of which these are made is thoroughly inpregnated with coal tar, and whatever Is put into them is practically safe from the incursions of the moth miller. Tar paper Is sold by the sheet as moth preventive, and any one may make for herself a moth proof chest by lining an ordinary pack ing box with this paper, putting layer also under the lid.
 Common newspaper is also a valuable moth preventive The mcth-miller is said to dislike printers ink. For ad ditional security it is wiser to lay the parcel away ill closed trunk; but where packing. chests run short 1t IS generally safe to put them on shelves in mouse proof closet, the danger being that tht mice may cut the paper and the moth miller thus effect all entrance.
 In the case of valuable furs, abou which there IS cause for uneasiness, ex anime them three weeks after storing The eggs of the moth-mlller hatch ou i'll from fifteen to twenty days, and tn moth begins at once its destructive work Therefore, by thls second inspection as surnnce may be made doubly lure.