The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-06-21
Look Out for Moths.

| This is the time when the little moth
| gets busy. 1t is much easier to bar him
! from your wardrobe than it is to put him
out afterward and repair the damage,
and early in the spring is the time TO
use the "ounce of prevention" He is no
| discrimination of persons or things; the
| schoolboy's half-worn wooden mittens or
your sealskin coat are all one to him,
when he starts on his perforating pill
grimage.
Wooden stuffs and fur are his favor
tie materials, and if, during the spring
and summer, you do not carefully guard
your garments made from these, they
are likely TO resemble sleeves in the fall,
says the Springfield Republican Eternal
| vigilance seems the only successful meth
Cd Of protecting wooden garments from
| the pests Garments which are used
from time to TIME all summer cannot be
wrapped, but must hang in the closet
and wardrobe ready for unexpected
changes in the weather, but they will
/ keep in good condition, the department
OF agriculture suggests, if the following
precautions are carried out;
Keep the closetsor wardrobe clean If
possible hang them in closet with
window Brush clothes thoroughly at
regular intervals. Turn pockets wrong
side out, cuffs down, and brush. Brush
under lapels, plaits and the top Of hens
| Everyone knows how much dust coll
| lects in all Of these crevices of clothing
| If this dust is not allowed to remain
the moths will not have as good lodg-
ing place.
The larger part Of ones winter ward
robe is usually carefully put away"
in the spring TO remain stored until ,old
weather appears again. Some people are
fortunate enough to be able to send their
| clothing to a storage company which
makes business of seeing that moths
do not damage garments left in its care.
The rank and file, however, still have to
| follow grandmothers methods and pack
their clothes in trunks or cedar chests,
or wrap them up and store them on the
closet shelf.
In the fall, when they are unpacked,
there is always the fear that in spite
of your care the moths may have found
a way in during the summer, Much of
this anxiety would be unnecessary if the
garment were made absolutely clean
when stored away, and if it were packed
in as nearly an airtight way as pos
! sible
Thoroughly brushing should remove ell
moths and eggs, but hanging for day in
the sun and wind also helps. When the
garment is clean, the next step is to
wrap it up so carefully that the moths
cannot reach IT, This can be done in
several ways; sew it up in strong brown
wrapping paper-use pasteboard boxes
and seal with strips of gum paper, or
place the garment in paper bags which
are sold for storage purposes.
Naphthalene fakes and prethrum pow.
der are the two most effective remedies
known for protecting clothes from moth
infestation and for killing all stages of
the insect. Camphor is less effective, and
while red cedar chests readily kill all
adult moths they do not prevent the
Matching Of moth eggs. Tests show that
the following substances often used for
the purpose possess no value as moth
''repellants": Tobacco extract and pow
ders, lavender flowers cayenne pepper,
allspiee, cloves, angelica root, black pep
per, borax, colocyntf pulp, eucalyptus
leaves, formaldehyde, hellebore, lead car
Donate, lead oyide lime, quassia chips.
sodium bicarbonste and sodium carbon
ate.
Brushing, busting with naphthalene
flakes or pyrethrum powder and careful
wrapping are The best insurance against
moths Placing in a cedar chest pro-
yides additional safety.
Dorothy Dexter.