The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-03-22

| uenheu as tollows. About oi1e-nfth OF an
| incn long. OF purplish gray or pufplish
| piack color, somewhat oblong and angular,
| US outline fiat, beneath convex, above
| fansverscly wfdnkled. The male has two
erect Wings, the female Is wingless The
| remale yields the cochineal. When they
| attach themselves TO the leaves they In
crease rapidly IN size and when fun grown
arc gathered for use by detaching them
| ny means OF n blunt knife, they are then
aried IN the sun and placed In scale.i jars
| dnS males are much smaller and are not
| c9hectcd, The dried insects are nearly
slobular smooth, about the size OF n pea
anu OF reddish brown color. easily pub
Neriscd, yielding dark red powder, which
| has faint odor and taste slightly bitter
| sh This carmine with a salt Of tin makes
me scarlet red dye Csnown as cochlncan
a rd used as coiorins in confectionery,
ana amonia, insoluble in volatile oil. An
p,her species tcochineal ilicis), which in
naoits species OF oak, is collected in
we mountainous parts of the Morea, in
Sreece, and used as a dye stun in the
isast under the name or kenucs chennes.
or alkenncs. The common field pea. or
g gSw pea, gives beautiful purple color.
The indigo is an Indian plant, with tho
leaves OF which blue dye is made The
common grass give n beautiful green color
-FOUR friend. Nicholas Belden.
LETTER CONTEST PROPOSED.
Houston, TeSas.-Dear Haphammer:
l nave never written to the club before
ont thought | would write during the
WIN vote for navy hn,e and nhita ~
don't think two more apnropriate coiors
could he found For oi,r clnh .,,n',os,
all of the Haps know that white means
purity and that blue means true, and |
think that every Han oitfht 10 ho tr,o
to the club Thev ate IL ,no ~
three colors used n, the i-n,tcd states
flag and for that reason all ,Gc tISns
SHOULD vote for blue and white. Mr.. HAP
c0chincal dV., was made V,W dnn't
know whether any Of Tho tinns bove
told how ii is done or not 81 VIII 40
scribe the PROCESS Weu thr co,hircnl
are little insects TINT ilvc In n ,rse xhfrh
grows only In the tronics Tho insnrts
live only an tho fruit ~ thc tr,e uy,iNn
is "A bright red color ana mat IL nrohahi,
one reason why tho tnsectS atc such 4
brilliant scarlet W,hcn rcoi,s ~, ,,,hsr
spread under Tho trces ana tho MEETS
shaken onto tho cLoths yVhen "a. clnths
are covered with INC insects they nre
rpmoVed and fresh clothv ,,incnd ,,,dsr
tho trces Rafting ,vntcr Ga wnxt ,o,,rod
on the insects 10 Kin tben, ,rhcy are
then dried nnd sent or tn ,bc d,n nam
facturnrs When Tho dvo ts moSa 4, g. -
beautiful scntiet
Now. Mr.. Han l havo n ,,lan to uronoso
10 the Iienhamp,ers l., 'is mis- T,,s
neXi contest we have let us havn a lctt,r
rontost--thnt ia Iet MI ~ tbe HAM votc
for The hoy mr. ,.iri thai thc, think writes
the host letters 10 .rhr posi- I,hen when
ali of Inc Hacnvb,,,r,,,,s b,d -, a.,
and tho one who receIved Tho most ,ot.s
eould bo ra1iea ,Lc rbem,rinn 7 atte,,
Writer Of mo IInnhnn,tnnrs or some
name something ike If Thcn Mi Inc
money as thev wanded IN and then n
LadrS could h. hourht foy the ono maj
90, ,he ~, ,t;,r ~, , ov ", ~,
nice 10 have c l.. w. on Tho badge, to