The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-19
THE BUFFALO MOTH.
6Ww to Exterminate 1t Without the Use -
Tobacco or CamphOr.

6Sw to Exterminate 1t Without the Use -
Tobacco or CamphOr.
Many dollars are wasted every year
in stores of gum-camphor and of snuff
and shredded tobacco. by whose
strong. pungent and repellent odors
the enemies of our clothing are sup
posed to be driven away, the good
housewife making point of filing
pockets with tobacco and camphor,
and of laying bits of cloth soaked in
spirits of turpentine between the folds
OF her treasures. almost every woman
having different method of her own
But the truth is that none of these
methods are necessary and they owe
the reputation of their efficacy solely
to the care with which they are carried
out. 1t is that care. and only that
care. which expels the eggs hidden
away already in convenient places:
and keeps out the mother moth so
that she can not be the means of work
ing further damage. A method of
keeping furs and other articles unin-
jured, which is perfectly effectual, is
one which requires no tobacco or
camphor or drug whatever; it is simply
the ounce of prevention. Let each
article be hung on the line outdoors.
shaken well and long, and then
whipped with a slender rod; this pro-
cess will expel every egg that has
been laid in it's recesses That done,
let the article be Immediately folded
away in several layers of news
papers, or, indeed, of any stout paper.
and the edge of the papers gummed
with starch Or mucilaye, so that the
mother moth can not find an entrance
to lay other eggs, and it is certain
that the garments will be taken out in
the fall entirely whole and sound
This of course presupposes that the
wrapping has been so complete
that the neither moth can find
no crevice through which to creep
and deposit her eggs thereafter. and
that the eggs already laid have been
beaten out Of the clothes. If these
eggs have not been disposed of, all the
tobacco of America or camphor of Asia
will not hinder the worms Matched
from eggs remaining in the clothes,
from eating till it is time for them to
spin. and from Kidding their shelter
with holes, it being always understood
that the little flying mother moth does
none of this eating and destroying,
her object beirg only to deposit her
eggs, and the worms Matched from
these eggs-which after their own
transformation become winged beings
doing all the destruction before
they put on wings. But it is evident
that if the eggs have been shaken and
whipped out then there are certainly
none there to hatch and work mis-
chief; and if the mother moth, which
sometimes seems to be the cunningist
and most cOntriving of created things,
can not get in in order to lay any more
eggs. there will be no new ones laid,
and safety is thus as we'll insured as if
one expended all the superhuous
change in the family in the purchase
OF tarred bags and malOdOrous drugs,
or paid insurance money to the deal
ers, whose only secret of preservation
is, after all, the taking of similar
pains. Nevertheless, in places where
there are dealers who are willing to |
take furs and insure them for small |
sum of money, restoring them as good
in the fall as when they took them. it
is great comfort and saving of
nervous worry to place them in such
capable hands, knowing no further
anxiety about them, and sure of re-
ceiving them or their equivalent all
right on the approach of cold weather.
-Harpers Bazaar.