The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-14
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KANSAS COMMENT
NOT GOOD FOR MOSQUITOES.

NOT GOOD FOR MOSQUITOES.
The Kansas mosquito is now in bios.
som, and as usual is proving nlnlseAA
somewhat of a 'night-bloomlng cereus;
The Eagle has made Lornaal -
scientific test of the following pre- :
ventives and can say authorltiVe,S
that they do not work: Pennyroyai'
kerosene rags; fresh liver; cantaloupe'
fiy-paper and sulphur. There are sew
eral theories in regard to the presence
of the Kansas mosquito, all of them
decidedly dubious. One scnool nous
that the mosquito goes Wnony py
scent, and finds his victim by the Doo-
lily odor of said victim 1t is TINS scnoo
which sets out kerosene and other pun
gent articles with the idea OF confusing
the insect. It doesn't work. Inc aver
age mosquito can sail through a Stabu-
ard Oil refinery and light on man VINO
has just taken a bath in Florida water
with the directness of Krag-Jorgen-
sen steel-tipped bullet. Another school
holds that the mosquito is completely
carnivorous, and can be FOOLED py De-
ing tempted away from human KIND py
setting forth dish of fresh calf's liver.
This will not work, either ANY aoull
mosquito will pass up dead liver Tor
anything that has life in it. The same
thing holds good in regard to canta-
loupe. So far as sulphur is concerned,
it appears merely to whet up a mos
Quito's appetite q for blood, CIV ng
piQuancy to the diet. and addlng 10 ms
pumping powers. The fact is that the
mosquito who doesn't seem to have any
room for it, has brain and of the
animal kingdom, is the most dlfhcult
of all to fool. He is after one thing
human blood, and If it is in reach. ne
will get it. There is only one way with
the mosquito, that is to get wet tower
and go after him-and when you ma
him, swat. You will not get him the
first night, or possibly the second, put
if you will keep at it, you will finally
foI, hi off - e oy.d
way.-Wichita Eagle.
WHERE THERE IS LAND.
Canada wants immigrants in its mid
die west, and is particularly partial to
American farmers. many who have
settled there, and Of whom $4,000 have
gone in during this, the greatest year
At a recent banquet, James j. Hill tClu
a group of Canadian visitors that they
needn't worry about getting people.
There is no. place else for them to go
he said. Which was exaggeration, but
it is a reminder that this has ceased
to be land of free homesteads, or even
of cheap farming land of good quality
But it was an exaggeration in othcr
ways. There are a half dozen or me +:
places where good land can be secured
in large quantities, either free, or al
nominal price But distance and lack
Of market facilities make it less valu-
able than its fertility suggests 1t is
interesting to note in this connection
that three of these open territories are
under the British flag. Australia, with
5000. 900 people in a land the size of this,
has land to give away, and even offers
to pay half the fare of desirable imnIi-
grants. Canada may be rated as sec
ond, and its proximity makes an ap-
peal to Americans. There are also few
people in South Africa, and a lot of
land, some of it desirable. There also
is dearth of railroads. And the same
rule applies to Brazil. except that IT'S
Y@%s 1~rv-,1
it is the railroads who bring settlers, or
their absence which keeps them out.
Americans who have watched this
country become one. Of the greatest,
forget, at times, ?, the important I art
played by the railroads.-Atchison
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