Word: gambusia
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...distinguished guests wandered off to inspect the Jersey cows, the Hampshire hogs, the gambusia fish, the flat fat fields, the workshops in which a War-ridden poverty-stricken peasantry is being guided toward economic independence...
...speaks seven languages, is today the active director of the school. Cholera wiped $1,500 worth of prize hogs from the school's books in 1932. But Dr. House is proud of the fact that his school was the first to introduce to Greece the gambusia minnow which devours mosquito larvae. These fish have already nearly wiped malaria from the Salonika plains. Some of the breeder fish came from Rome; others were imported in a goldfish bowl from New Orleans by a messenger who spent long seasick hours cradling the precious aquarium in his arms...
...Gambusia in Greece...
Speaking of gambusia (TIME, May 1 under Italy) did you know that this useful little minnow was first imported into Greece from Rome some years ago by the American Farm School on the outskirts of Salonica, to combat malaria. deadly scourge of Macedonia and all the Near East? The undrained swamps and ubiquitous containers for conserving the scant rainfall create breeding places for the anopheles mosquito which is the disease carrier. The School now propagates gambusia and each year plants large numbers of them where the)7 will do the most good by eating the larvae of the mosquito. Thanks...
...Government set the minnow against the mosquitoes. It was the silver-brown "mosquito fish" or gambusia, found only in North & South Carolina ponds. The male is less than an inch long. The female is twice his size and gives birth to live fish. Surface-feeders, they gladly gobble all the mosquito "wigglers" they can hold. Italy bought 200,000 of them every year from U. S. fish dealers and dumped them into the Istrian ponds. They gobbled their weight in "wigglers." Fortnight ago the Italo-German Institute of Marine Biology announced that the gambusia had gobbled malaria clean...