How To Prevent Moth

The cuttings of Russia leather placed with furs, blankets, cloth, etc., will effectually prevent moth. Camphor is also a good thing. The article must be kept in a dry place, and free from dust.

How To Kill Moths In Carpets

Wring a coarse cloth out of clean water, spread it smoothly on the part of the carpet where moths are suspected to be; with a hot iron send the steam from the wet cloth into the carpet. This process will not injure the pile of the carpet, if the iron is not pressed on too heavily. It is necessary to destroy the moth as well as the eggs.

A Simple Method Of Catching And Destroying Flies

Take some jars, mugs, or tumblers, fill them half full with soapy water; cover them as jam-pots are covered, with a piece of paper, either tied down or tucked under the rim. Let this paper be rubbed inside with wet sugar, molasses, honey, or jam, or any thing sweet, cut a small hole in the centre, large enough for a fly to enter. The flies settle on the top, attracted by the smell of the bait; they then crawl through the hole, to feed upon the sweet beneath.

Meanwhile the warmth of the weather causes the soapy water to ferment, and produces a gas which overpowers the flies, and they drop down into the vessel. Thousands may be destroyed this way, and the traps last a long time.

How To Destroy Vermin

Small vermin of all kinds may be killed and effectually cleared out of their favorite resorts by the free use of burning fluid. Caution, however, must be used in its application to woodwork, as it injures paint.

How To Destroy Rats And Mice

Mix some ground plaster of Paris with brown sugar and Indian meal. Set it about on old plates, and leave beside each plate, a saucer or pan of water. When the rats have eaten the mixture they will drink the water and die. To attract them toward it, you may sprinkle on the edges of the plates a little of the oil of rhodium. Another method of getting rid of rats is, to strew pounded potash in their holes. The potash gets into their coats, and irritates their skin, and the rats desert the place.

To prevent rats dying in their holes and becoming offensive, poison them by mixing half a pound of Carbonate of Barytes with a quarter of a pound of lard. It produces great thirst, the rats leave their holes to drink, and are unable to return.

How To Prevent Insects Climbing Up Fruit Trees

Let a piece of India rubber be burnt over a gallipot, into which it will gradually drop, in the condition of a thick viscid juice, which state it will retain for any length of time. Having melted the India rubber, let a piece of cord, or worsted be smeared with it, and then tied several times round the trunk of the tree. The melted substance is so very sticky, that the insects will be prevented, and generally captured in their attempts to pass over it.

How To Drive Away Musquitoes

A camphor bag hung up in an open casement will prove an effectual barrier to their entrance. Camphorated spirits applied as perfume to the face and hands will prove an effectual preventive; but when bitten by them, aromatic vinegar is the best antidote.