Fleas and Moths.— Sometime since (the Hobart Town Mercury says) a letter appeared m the columns of one of our Southern contemporaries, stating that if gum leaves were placed m drawers and boxes where linen was kept the silver fish, the larvae of the clothes.moth, would beat a hasty retreat and never re-appear, several people m this town, also, who were terribly annoyed by the " fish" tried the remedy, and found it to be a perfect cure, and we make the results of their experience public, so that those who have an. objection to see holes eaten m their silk dresses and black coats by the destructive insects, may try this apparently almost certain panaccea— the gum leaf Place half a dozen leaves between the sheets or blankets or on the matress, and fleas will disappear*
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Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 739, 13 March 1877, Page 3
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