TO DESTROY WORMS IN CARVINGS.
1. Fumigate the wood with benzine.
2. Saturate the wood with a strong solution of corrosive sublimate: if used for carvings, the colour should be restored by ammonia, and then by a weak solution of hydrochloric acid; the holes may be stopped up with gum and gelatine, and a varnish of resin dissolved in spirits of wine should afterwards be applied to the surface.
3. Whale-oil and poisonous ointments have been found of service.
The wood should be carefully brushed before being operated upon.