Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-06-20
MOTHS RAVAGES.
How Furs, Rugs, Robcs and Wra1s
May $50 saved.

May $50 saved.
In the matter of moths the tradition
al ounce of prevention is worth many
pounds of cure the best way to prevent
their ravaees 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,
ire also the first which may be laid
aside for the season. Before this II
done have them beaten thoroughly,
e., whipped well with a small rattan,
which is what furriers use tor the same
purpose. Then examine the felt care
FULLY, aud where you find the hairs mat
ted tightly together part them and wet
the spot thoroughly, yet daintily, 30 a.
not to touch the adjacent hair, with
spirits of ammonia After this fold the
garment, with layers of newspapers be-
tween each fold, and gum camphor
splinkl,d ON the fur, and, Il ally, either
sew the bundle in all old sheet or wrap
it lii newspapers, FASTING the edges. Ii
this is done carefully and speedily, you
may rely with comparative certainty
that your goods are beyond reach OF the
small destroyer.
The best moth-proof chests are those
made OF cedar, to the odor of which the
insect has IN unconquerable aversion,
and the camphor-wood chests which
seamen bring from 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 contrived
cedar packing trunks which answer all
purposes Of utility, and which are far
less expensive. These are the ordinary
packing trunk lined with thin veneer.
ing Of cedar, which, though less than
the eighth of an inch thick, fits closely
in every crack and coruer, and renders
the trunk at once mOth-proof and air
tight No camphOr 10 needed in such
chest; only be careful to sec that no
traces Of moths are in the garments b.
fore packing, and lay away smoothly
with newspaper layers between each
strata of clothes e. an additional pHo-
caution.
Paper barrels with close-attinR heads
form another etfectuLly moth-proot
case. The paper OF which these are
made IL thoroughly impregnated with
coal tar, and whatever is put into them
is practically safe from tho inoursions
Of the moth miller. Tar paper il sold
py the sheet a. moth preventive, and
anv one may make for herself moth
proof chest by lining an ordinary pack
ing box with this paper, putting layer
also under the lid.
Common newspaper IL also . valuable
moth preventive. The moth-miller y
said to dislike printers ink. For ad-
.litional security it is wiser TO lay tho
parcel away in = closed trunk, but whore
backing chests run short it il generally
safe to put them ON shelves in mouse.
proof closet, the danger being that the
mice may cut the paper and the moth.
miller thus effect an entrance.
In the case of valuable furs, about
which there 10 cause for uneasiness, en-
mine them three weeks after storing.
The eggs OF the moth-miller hatch out
in from fifteen to twenty days, and the
moth begins at once its destructive work.
Therefore, by this second inspection ~
suranc. may be made doubly sure.