The Nevada County picayune., 1910-08-23

tIEE2A-[ . mas Ol suINlAfl and d2sAiiQe= tLL~tssi~~) tion Nor is it noiscless
 underworld. Every evening
 NR after a hot sunset it forms Ae1 an orchestra which shrilf5
 out it's prowess and dauuts its coming achievement And in all the world there Is no orchestra so we'll paid. To be sure il gets little in the matter of attention but in ways more substantial il is rewarded hand somely. For it Is permitted 10 levy toll upon the corn and the wheat the cabbage and the apple, they grow. IL is allowed to eat the profits of the miller and the grain dealer. Ger tain members of the shrIling tribe go farther and demand greater concessions in their greed Not satisfied with money tribute. they exact human lives. Their gruesome tracks are made npon the faces of little children. Then from places where poverty forces women and ba- bies into filth and sickness, they take wing and they bear their death message into homes fair and clean-homes where the inmates can not concern themselves with life's wretched ones. And nature in her ineXorable circle from which neither the proudest nor the poor. est can escape, herself supplies the link which brings the miserable home to the fair one
 But reducing 1t to dollars and cents basis which all of understand what would you say the insects of this country cost us each year? Millions of dollars, More in fact than our entire system of public school edu- cation. from the Kindergarten to the uniyer. sityl
 Moreover whole sections intended by na- ture for the production of particular crops often are compelled to abandon them for no other reason than insect infestation This is especially true of horticulture Myriad in. deed. are the insect foes that infest vegetables and fruit If ever the life of this underworld is brought upon the stage as that of the barn. yard has been. it may well open with this plaint of the truck grower:
 The insects 3fe busy in clover and grass
 A=hatehn out soffer fer garden sass
 They're happily hummn this giddy
 The old mule will sttn be your ary-o-
 piane.
 Now the farmer has found himself help. less before this foe which must be fought with microscopes and laboratory mysteries. Consequently he has appealed to the man of science whom everyone despses in the day of prosperity and rushes to consult when the world is avry.
 Let me tell you of what has been accom- plished by one man with microscope. His name is stephen A. Forbes and he is state entomologist of Illinois His chief work In this position is to eytermiuate economic in- sects" as those which damage the growing things are called He is also head of the state laboratory of natural history and pro lessor of entomology in the University of Ill nois He has held these offices p years. which means that he has spent quarter of century fighting the predaceous instincts of economic insects, barring occasional short lapse to fight the economical instincts of state legislatures. Naturally he k on intimate terms with number of bugs.
 For practical knowledge of an insect the ability to recognize 1t in all it's phases is mere beginning, It's dietary must bo known, not only what it prefers but what it likes next best and what it will eat to escape starvation:
 
 and its power of multiplying; Is it subject to contagious diseascs2 If so, how may it he induced to catch oue2 Also it Is well 10 know how it's neighbar bugs regard it. Whether the sight of 1t arouses the instinct to protect the instinct to kill. For there are bugs so kindly disposed toward other bugs that they Will carry them to their food supply. hatch their eggs for them. and bring mp their off spring The sole duties they leave to those they protect are breathing. eating and m9lti- rlyins
 Frs let me cell you about the fight against the chinch bug. As everyone knows. the ehineh js a dexildeYastator= whose evil intentions are backed vigh energy and resoureetuluess. When jt starts to take what it wants from tho farm there is just one thing 1t leWes-the mort. gage For more than generation scientists i'll all parts of the country directed their intel lieence against Its instinct. and instinct won the victory II seemed that reason could not fathom the cause of the outbreaks nor find way to prevent them. In despair the men of science were for saving did the old Irish woman of the rain that spoiled her potatoes, There's no ratson in it it's just the will of God,s
 And right there il seemed the problem would have to rest But occasional per sistent brain unable to accept this solu ton Observations went on not only week by week hut day by day and often even hour by hour Even SO 1t was a work that proceeded slowly The chinch bug was hard to make rules for Indeed t seemed more an eNcep tion to rule than the French language. For instance scientists hattered themselves that one thing was proved concerning his chinchship viz. the abandonment of wheat culture meant an end 10 chineh bug ravages. But farmers made the sad discovery, quite unintentionally you may be sure, not at all for the sake of enlightvning the men of science, that the aban donment of wheat may even increase the chinch devastation. For if they have become numerous and can find no wheat, they will accept oats barley, grass or corn. The ahan donment of wheat to be effective against the