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...Department of Agriculture bought itself a bargain last week. It acquired a collection of 1,000,000 butterflies and moths-valued at $1 per specimen -belonging to the late Dr. William Barnes of Decatur, Ill. for $50,000, or a nickel per insect. Usefulness of the collection, to be housed in the National Museum, Washington: with the new specimens on hand the Government can more readily identify insect pests...
...British East Africa, the government has forbidden the killing of them there. A discovery which may furnish a better method of controlling the spread of sleeping sickness was announced recently by R. H. T. P. Harris, director of research in Zululand. He found the tsetse fly sensitive to pyrethrum (insect powder.) and veratrine (obtained from the root of the Indian poke). Especially effective was a .5% mixture of veratrine and cocoanut oil. Applied to a live animal, this mixture killed the attacking fly immediately. Since there are great stretches of land in Zululand which are unfit for agriculture, protesters...
...publicity that Stone's stories had brought Winsted. He named the hero of all his stories Lester Green. His stories have received fair but not great circulation, some of them being rather dull. Last week, for example, Lester Green, to save spraying, grafted on his apple tree an insect-catching plant...
Another prime supporter of Dean Rusby's contentions was a Manhattan importer and consulting chemist named Howard W. Ambruster. He specializes in arsenic and arsenical preparations for insect control. Three years ago he heard that U. S. ergot preparations were adulterated. He believed the situation was opportune for him to make money by importing clean Spanish ergot. He bought 70,000 Ib.?virtually a "corner" of the supply at that time?for $1.60 to $1.70 per Ib. The U. S. market price for ergot was then $1.15. He offered manufacturing druggists his ergot at $1.50. None would buy. Although...
Inside the Court House cowered no blackamoor. Something else had roused the passions of the mob. A law about an insect: phylloxera vastatrix...