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Moth Powder, To Put Away Furs, Woolens, etc.
Lupulin flour of hops), 1 dr.; Scotch snuff, 3 ozs.; powdered gum camphor and black pepper, each, 1 oz.; cedar sawdust, 4 ozs. Mix thoroughly, and strew (or put in small paper bags) among the furs or woolen goods (after they have been thoroughly whipped with small rods) which are being put away. This powder contains some of all the best-known preventives. But if moth eggs have already been laid in them, unless the whipping takes them out, they will hatch and start their destructive work, unless the benzine or some other " killer " is used; hence it is best to keep an eye on them occasionally, and whip thoroughly again if any are seen. This whipping the moth and their eggs out, then sealing up in boxes or paper bags, is from the Boston Transcript, which adds: "If you shut moths out, and shut none in, you are perfectly safe. " Not a doubt of it.
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