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...members would "never" abandon their boycott. In the opinion of His Majesty's Government, once Congress politicians take office they will end by trying to make the Constitution work, rather than by continuing efforts which would wreck the Constitution and cost them their lucrative jobs under it-this bait having thoughtfully been provided by far-seeing Sir Samuel Hoare, today Home Secretary and runner-up for the Prime Ministry...
Most effective counterattack is to spread poison bait, usually a mixture of bran, sawdust and sodium arsenite. Colorado Entomologist S. C. McCampbell has designed a mechanical spreader which. manned by three men, does the work of 25 men with shovels. Some farmers put their faith in the "hopper dozer," a shallow tank about 20 ft. wide, filled with kerosene, which is mounted on wheels or runners and pulled along by a horse at each end. Rising from the back edge of the tank is a screen of tin or oilcloth. At the approach of the "dozer" the grasshoppers leap into...
...continued heavy damage to this year's corn crop, and a heavy deposit of eggs to menace next year's. Most of the 462 carloads of Federal poison shipped in had been used up, however, and many farmers in desperation were paying from their own pockets for bait bought from private dealers. In Colorado, an anti-grasshopper council was organized by the State agriculture extension director. In Arizona, a State entomologist predicted that the pests would this year consume much more than the 25% of range grass which they eat in normal years...
Reported the New Yorker three weeks ago: "A little group of animal lovers organized . . . under the title Mouse Beautiful are out to capture the flagging interest of former guppy-and ant-fanciers. . . . Their bait, as the quick ones among you will have guessed, is mice-white ones, the same sort as those now scampering madly all over the best London drawing rooms...
Salt water worms are of two principal varieties, the smooth-sided bloodworm, which stings, and the fringed sandworm, which pinches. Average length is from six to eight inches, but full-grown sandworms are sometimes a foot long. As bait for flounders, weakfish and porgies they have no peers, the sandworm being especially alluring in spring and autumn, the blood worm in deep summer. Few years ago when salt water worms were rare, fishermen in Long Island Sound were willing to pay as much as 75? a dozen for them. Standard price in this year's well-organized market...