The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-05-26
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A SUMMER ZOE.
tho UphoIsterer's Plan for Circumventing
the Guiieless but Rulnous Moth.

tho UphoIsterer's Plan for Circumventing
the GuiieIess but Ruinous Moth.
The great mistake folks make is to await
The heat of the summer before watching
Tor moths. Folks have bundled up their
woolens and packed them away in their
chests full of tarbolnc or carboline or
cedarline or camphorline, and actually be-
lieved that they would be safe until fall.
They have wrapped up hundreds of moth
eggs which eventually hatch the grubs.
These OdOrs will never kill moth or de-
stroy its life germs. a moth will not vol.
UNFAIRLY seek a nesting place where the
)dOr exists, but If boxed up with an OdOr
1t cannot escape FROM IL simply proceeds
TO lay its eggs in the atmosphere, which
becomes a second nature to the grub when
hatchcd. Anything saturated with arsenic,
or Creosote, or even salt or impregnatCd
with sulphur, the moth or worm will not
touch, but the use of these articles Is dan.
yerous TO the colorings Of fine textures
The commonest species are light brown
in color. They begin to oappear late in April
and may occasionally be seen fitting about
rs late as August. They pair off and the
female then searches for suitable places for
the deposition of her eggs, working her
way into dark corners, crcvices of the walls,
cracks in the floor or deep in the folds of
garments, apparently choosing by instinct
the least conspicuous places. The moth
lays from Is TO l40 eggs at time. From
these eggs hatch, in n period from three to
seven days, the white, soft body Larvae or
worms, all Of which begin TO make n case
for themselves from the fragments Of the
cloth upon which they feed. The case is
in the shape of hollow roll. We have all
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quently we have crushed them supposing
that we have thus prevented all damage,
| when the very existence of the cylinder
| shows that the grub has already fed. 1t is
| the thirty-sixth day period, from the time
| that the eggs are laid to the time that the
| worm or grub reaches full size, that the
| damage is done.
A benzinc spray is sure death, but there
| are many objections TO its use and danger
| from its innammable character; still if the
ordinary throat spray is filed with benzine
and the vapor thrown into crevices against
moth or eggs it will destroy them, but nc
light should be brought into room thus
| treated until after it has been thoroughly
aired and the odor dissipated. The benzine
| spray may be used very safely upon carpet
ing but the utmost care should be exercised
in using it on delicate fabrics.
After a thorough airing Of a wooler
fabric, for the purpose of driving out any
concealed moth Qor moth abhors light
and after time has been given to the de
velopment of any concealed egg, you may
be reasonably sure that there is nothing
harmful on the fabric; then it is as SAT-
done up in a paper parcel as it would be i
saturated and buried beneath all the anti
moth remedies in existence. Camphor
tobacco, napthaline and other strong odor
ants are only partially rcpellant to the fly
ing moth and have no effect at all upon tn
eggs or the worm, which is the destroying
| element.