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Show boxes, chests, or trunks with tight lids. If you use a closet Just for storing, put crack filler in any breaks in the plaster or around baseboards. A gasket will make the door shut tight all around." Methods Given For Storing Woolens "Store wool like treasures". That is the advice of Mrs. Susie S. Cook, clothing specialist at the Utah State Agricultural College Col-lege Extension Service, who adds that before the housewife stores any article xf wool at home, she should see that it is clean and free from pests. Pointing out that every clothes moth living off good wool Is helping the Axis, Mrs. Cook first suggests cleaning the wool, since spots are moth bait. Moth larvae are killed when wool is washed in thick sudes or dry cleaned, states Mrs. Cook. Also sunning and airing, along with brushing, kill larvae. In bright stin they drop to the ground, and brushing crushes the eggs or whisks them out of seams and pockets. "Eut even with this type of care, there may be some hidden eggs or larvae left," cautions Mrs. Cook. She suggests protecting protec-ting wool by using flake naphthalene naph-thalene or paradichlorobenzene , or mothballs, or a spray. As these chemicals evaporate, they give off gas, explains the extension clothing specialist. The gas discourages moth larvae from feeding or kills them if the gas Is concentrated enough. It takes about one pound of flakes or balls for a small chest or trunk with a tight lid. For a large clo.set or storeroom, use one pound to 1(J0 cubic feet. "Keep the .storage place shut down as much as possible," directs di-rects Mrs. Cook. "The fumes go downward:), so It's well to tie some flakes In a cloth sack and hang them high or put some on a top sholf. "Tight Is tin! watchword In storing against these pi-sts," con-rjudis con-rjudis Mrs. Cool:. "Pill, woo things with chemical flakes h I h'-a vy paper llghUy sealed or li |