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...barrows (pigs), the sheep, the five healthiest boys & girls from the 4-H Clubs (Head, Heart, Hands, Health), the best 4-H cooks and dressmakers. Kings of corn, oats, hay, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa seed had all been crowned. The crowd had taken its fill of side-show exhibits: insect pests, choice meat cuts, Sculptor Charles Umlauf 's 13 skating pigs done in lard. Then into the ring at the Chicago Stockyards' International Amphitheatre stepped a hulk ing, bullnecked man with sagging trousers and a wise, weathered face. He was farmer J. Charles Yule, of Alberta, Canada...
Meanwhile the Australian Government sent agents to the Americas to see what the prickly pear's natural enemies were. The agents investigated about 150 insects that feed on cactus and nothing else, set a few of the most promising to work in Australia. By far the most potent destroyer proved to be a little moth borer, Cactoblastis cactorum. The larvae of this insect eat the inside of the pear plant, even the roots, and their depredations promote rotting due to bacteria and fungi. Armed with strings of moth borer eggs glued to strips of paper, fieldworkers swarmed through prickly...
...given life. But before the live puppet can become a boy he must become truthful, courageous, unselfish. His one constant companion in the adventures that test the little puppet is Jiminy Cricket, his conscience, "that still, small voice that nobody listens to." This worldly but goodhearted little insect, topped by a grey topper and swinging an umbrella ("a genuine Chamberlain" which he sometimes uses for a parachute), comes to work late the very first day, fails Pinocchio when he needs his conscience most, despairs when Pinocchio despairs, is chirpingly cheerful when the puppet is. He is a fresh little fellow...
...rowdies had placed rocks in their snowballs." The South last week was full of frozen pipes and howling winds, but it was also full of snowmen, slides, sleds, and a great sense of novelty. On Peachtree Street, in Atlanta, art students snowsculpted Scarlett O'Haras, painted them with insect sprayers. Although his paper contained stories about oil heaters that had exploded, people who had been hurt in falls, gallant old Frederick Sullens, editor of the Jackson, Miss. Daily News, refused to be downcast, summed up a lot of Southern feeling: "No form of weather is more fascinating than...
...other hand the thrip is a pestiferous insect much disliked by orchardists in California and elsewhere. The Encyclopedia describes it as of the order of Hexapoda, has firmly chitinized cuticle, and can be recognized by the combination of imperfectly suctorial jaws. It is also habitually parthenogenetic...