The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-07-26
IN THE JU6ULAR
prof. otto Luger Jumps On to the
p. Q.'s Redwood Cores
pondent.
Saws that RedWDod Experiment
ers do not Follow In
StruCtiOnS.

Fright in the neck" is where Prof.
Otto Luger, the chinch bug destroyer,
gives it to the correspondent of the
Pioneer Press from this city, who re-
ported that Lnger's system was no
good, and that paper gave the report,
which was based on only a 4S hour
experiment, sensational currency.
Prof. Luger's attention was called to
the article by Chas. G. Chollar, of this
city, who did not believe that proper
test had been made, and as soon as
Mr.. Luger saw the article he penned
letter to the daily,a manifold copy
of which he sent to Mr.. Chollar. In
private letter he stated that the cor
respondent who made the test was
not evidently intended by nature to
be active in the experimental business,
as he, as we'll as the party who joined
him, could not even follow the printed
instructions that go with infected
bugs. The letter, which is addressed
to the P. P. by Prof. Luger. is self-ex-
planatory, and is as follows:
Permit me to reply to special,
dated July 18th, from Redwood Falls
and printed in your widely distributed
paper.
It has been the aim to keep the fact
that our state had chinch bugs in
alarming numbers as quiet as possible,
and consequently no articles have
been published in the dailies OF st.
Paul and Minneapolis. Only such in
formation has been printed in local
papers as was absolutely necessary to
carry on the work of infection, or to
advise the use of other remedies. But
with each box of diseased bugs a
printed instruction has been sent, OF
which this is a copy: Here follows
the copy
There are two possible explanations
why the disease did not appear in the
so-called test experiment made by
Rev. John Sinclair and August Knip-
pie, a retired farmer.
First; The diseased material re,
ceived from Capt. Edward w. Lewis
but originally from New Ulm, may
not have been good. This is possible
but not probable, as the disease works
we'll in the infection boxes, not alone
in New Ulm, but wherever such boxes
are in operation and where instruc
tons have been followed. Over two
hundred boxes are now in operation
and as far as known, all give satisfac
ton. Of course an infection box thai
has been in use for some time gives
better results than new or fresh one
as can be readily understood by
those that have even a slight knowl
edge of such matters, but which the
above gentlemen did not possess.
If, however, the material received
did not work, the gentlemen coulc
easily have obtained fresh ma
terial; in fact they are requested in
the circular to apply at once for it,bu'
instead of doing SO they rush into
print, simply to expose their ignorance
in such matters.
Second: The would-be expert.
mentors did not know what they were
about. Such is evidently the case, as
shown by their special to your paper
If physician prescribes medicine
to be applied in a certain manner, say
; against tape-worm, and the patient
uses this medicine as a liniment in.
stead of swallowing it, the parasite
may be amused but will not be dis.
lodged. If Capt. Lewis had giver
the command s'fire" at the enemy 15(
yards away and his soldiers had car
ried out the command by throwing
pebbles, the effect would have beer
, quite different from the desired one
!, Yet the experimenters did just such
things and now complain of not hav
: ing the success which their careful( !?
experiments so we'll deserved.
r Time is too precious just now t.
, give a full description of the whole
: matter, but the Pioneer Press viii
. bring It in time.
BASE BALL.
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