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...more than TIME had. For your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision. The current thus electrocutes all insect life in its path and also it fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere into the soil thus fertilizing the field...
...lived in a village shack, sleeping on a broken bamboo bed, halving his salary with War-impoverished fellow-scientists in Europe. He furnished the Universities of Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Moscow, Vienna and the Philippines with extensive zoological collections; left a collection at Los Banos including 50,000 insect specimens...
...curious to know on what authority TIME has discovered an "insect-line" at 2,500 feet above sea level. I have been plagued with the ordinary house fly in South America at altitudes above 12,000 feet, when there were horses to furnish the manure in which the flies could breed. I am now located 1,700 feet above TIME s "insect-line" and only wish it were as effective in Arizona as in one spot in South Dakota. I say "one spot," advisedly, because when I was in the Black Hills at Lead, I can assure you the existence...
TIME, in good faith, unguardedly, paraphrased idyllic insect states-ments of Custer Park, S. D., officials as reported by the Associated Press; will hereafter be more alert...
...with difficulty that I restrain myself from coupling the hyphenated name of this British "Dowse" with that of a certain unmentionable insect...