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Pittsfield, Mass, Oct. 3--A cow's tail is worth $50, Berkshire County Commissioners decided in upholding a damage suit brought by Mark Drumm of Stockbridge against the owner of a dog that chewed the bossy's fly swatter off. The Commissioners agreed with Drumm that insect annoyance after loss of the fail reduced the cow's value as a milk given...
...Episcopal minister, tolerant but troubled. Luly, his wife, is "a saint, but without the unpleasant qualities that so often go with saintliness." Their children are Brad, 15, serious, dependable; Linda, volatile and imaginative; Dicky. funny-faced child who asks, "Papa, is a snapping turtle a mammal or an insect?" and "What State...
...over the U. S. last week Department of Agriculture agents were pushing an intensive campaign against insect pests. Catastrophic visitations like the Buffalo gnat swarm which descended on Arkansas last month (TIME, May 7) usually catch entomologists as well as farmers off guard, but against better known enemies spring surveys are conducted to find out how they survived the winter. Reports this year were far from heartening. Grasshoppers, No. 1 bane of Northwestern grain farmers, got through a mild winter in enormous numbers. Chinch bug mortality in the Midwest was only 3%. In Indiana and Kansas 93% of Hessian flies...
...lizards have since been found on a few neighboring islands, but most are on Komodo. Komodo is a volcanic island 22 mi. long and 12 mi. wide, covered with bleak, crumbling mountains, grassy plains, thick jungle. Besides dragon lizards it supports many a deer, boar, water buffalo, bird, snake, insect and a miserable Dutch penal colony. The lizards claw out great caves in the mountains, roam down to prey on deer, boar and smaller animals. They walk with bodies well off the ground, can run fast, swim, stand on their hind legs like dinosaurs. They are keen-eyed, keen-eared...
...Seminary untouched by its liberalism, studied at Berlin and Marburg, took a pastorate in Flushing, L. I. where he married a missionary's daughter. When he went as missionary to the French Cameroun in 1932 it was to replace a man who had been fatally stung by an insect. Studying the local dialect, Missionary Woodbridge evangelized for six months in the malaria-ridden jungle, then took charge of no evangelists covering