This section is from the book "Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics", by Paul N. Hasluck. Also available from Amazon: Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics.
Try one of the following remedies for preventing moths attacking clothes, (a) Keep the clothes in a trunk made of cedar wood, (b) Sprinkle some oil of birch on a piece of cloth or flannel and place it in the box with the clothes, (c) Sprinkle some Keating's insect powder on the clothes before folding them up. (d) Place some albo-carbon (obtainable from the ironmonger) in the clothes box. To remove moths from clothing, it should be stoved; or the clothes may be taken out of doors and well shaken, then well brushed and carefully examined inside and out.
 
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