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succeeding years in the same section.
The army worm is caterpillar. Hav-
ing gorged itself upon the farmers
grain and grass, 1t burrows beneath
the ground, where 1t passes through
the pupal stage and finally emerges as
a moth-to lay new crop of eggs for
the creation OF another horde of cater
pillars. But not one army worm in
10,000,O00 ever gets to the moth stage.
When still fat, juicy caterpillar it is
interviewed by the winthemia quadri-
pustul alta, a trichinid fly very much
smaller than its name. These deposit
their eggs in army worms Backs, and
when they dig down into the ground
1T is without the hope OF a glorious
resurrection.
Similarly the grasshopper pest of
Kansas and other western states was
subdued by the sarcophaga georgina,
hairy bodied fly smaller than the COM
mon typhoid" fiy of the households,
but similar to 1t in external appear
ance. 1t deposits its eggs in the grass
hoppers' bodies and very shortly there
after the hoppers permanently retire
from business.
Instances of this kind could be multi
piled indefinitely, proving conclusively
that if the insect allies of the farmers
were exterminated, leaving such pests
as the Hessian fly, the army worm. the
grain aphis, the grasshopper and scores
of other peripatetic appetites to multi
ply unchecked, the maintenance of hu-
man life would soon become impossible.
There would be nothing left on earth
for mankind to eat. knowing that for
every pest that exists there is nat
ural check, scientists hope some day to
so far control the multiplication of in
furious insects that those inimical to
husbandry Will cease to constitute a
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REELlHG SILK.
SoHfS covvAs, e4oro

of an improved strain the character of
a hive may soon be entirely changed.
= 1t is probable that the indirect bene-
fits of bee keeping are much greater
than the value of the honey and wax
production. Bees, wasps and other in
sects play a very important part in the
pollenation of flowers of many kinds.
As they travel from blossom to bios
som. they carry pollen from the stamens
of one to the pistils of others. insur-
ing perfect fertilization, which with
most blossoms of trees, shrubs and
plants is not accomplished without the
intervention of insect agency. Fruit
growers often imagine that bees are
detrimental to their industry, while as
matter of fact profitable fruit grow
ing would hardly be possible but for
their activity in insuring perfect pol
lenization as an incident of the busi-
ness of honey gathering. It is much
the. same with cucumbers, squashes.
pumpkins. clovers and berries, and not
less so with alfalfa, the great forage
crop of the west, and many other parts
of the world. 1t is one of the greatest
honey producers known, SO that wher-
ever 1t is extensively grown bees thrive
exceedingly, and honey production is
profitable. 1t is only recently that it
has been discovered that bees are even
more useful to alfalfa than alfalfa is
to the bees. Without the aid of these
insects to insure the pollenization of
the flowers, the seeds are infertile and
the plants will not thrive. 1t is prob
able that many of the failures that
have attended attempts to introduce al
fa1fa into various sections of the east
and south have been due to the scarcity
of bees, rather than to defects of soil
and climate.
The red clover is one plant that bears
flowers which the busy honey bee can
not pollenize. The nectar is too deeply
placed in the honey cup for insects
SO small to reach it. Here the bellig-
erent humble proves himself a power
full ally of the farmer, exploring every
clover blossom in search of nectar, and
incidentally perfectly pollenizing every
hower. Some years ago it was found
that the soil and climate of parts of
the Philippine islands were perfectly
adapted to the growth of red clover
and this valuable forage plant was ex-
tensively planted there. The Immediate
results were disappointing, and finally
some one suggested that the trouble
lay in the lack of suitable insects to
accomplish the fertilization of the bios
SONS. The entomologists of the de-
partment of agriculture made haste to
supply the deficiency, Introducing a
large number of American humble bees.
1t seems likely that the experiment will
be entirely successful, and that the
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serious drain upon our agricultural re-
sources. Just now they are waging de-
termined war upon the gypsy moth and
brown tailed moth, which in some Sec
tions are causing enormous damage to
fruit, forest and shade trees. These
moths have always existed in Japan,
but they were so far held in check that
they did no serious damage. Unfor-
tunately they were brought to America
unaccompanied by their natural foes,
so that they were free to multiply with
the amazing rapidity characteristic of
insect life. So the parasites were as
siduously sought and their introduction
into some sections has been followed by
results so encouraging that complete
conquest of the insects is hoped for
OF domesticated insects the. most
noteworthy examples are honey bees,
silkworms, the fig wasp and the cochi-
neal insect. The world over these are
responsible for the production of COM
modities to the value of billions of dol
lars annually. OF the four the honey
bee is the most familiar. 1t was un-
known in. America in the days prior to
the coming of Europeans, and that fact
alone was sufficient to make it impos-
sible that the inhabitants Of temperate
America should ever achieve any not
able success at agriculture.
Bees have been known and kept for
the sake of their honey and wax from
remote antiquity, but these products
enter into the worlds commerce to a
greater extent today than at any pc
Rod in the past. The honey and wax
industry of the United States now has
an annual value of $4,000, 900. with an
investment of capital amounting to
$100,000.00e. The number of bee keep
ers, producing honey for market in
greater or less quantities, is estimated
at 275.0oo, not taking into account the
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person who can demonstrate his abi1-
ity to initiate the honeycomb. 1t is a
bona fide offer, backed by large cap
ftal, made by men of unquestioned in
tegrity and sincerity; so it is time that
the writers of newspaper fakes to this
effect either subsidized or else came for
ward to claim the reward
The value of a hive of bees depends
absolutely upon the queen. During the
breeding season she lays from 1000 to
5000 eggs day, and as these hatch and
the young bees reach maturity they re-
place the older members of the hive,
so that by the employment of queen
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humble bee must be accorded the honor
therefor
Most perfectly domesticated of all
insects is the silkwOrm. The species
no longer exists in a wild state at all,
and long centuries of breeding in cap
tivity have caused the adult moth prac-
tically to lose the power of flight. In
China the rearing of silkworms for
their cocoons. to be used in the manu-
facture of textiles, is known to have
been practiced for at least $500 years:
how much longer it is useless to con-
lecture About 500 A. d. the insect was
introduced into Europe, and the pro-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-05-20
The Deadly Fly

If there are no flies there will
be fewer dead babies"
This is what the fy-fghting
committee of the American Civic
Association says, and to drive home
the truth of what it says it is send
ing out pictures of baby''s rubber
nipple, showing the fly fattening
upon it in one view and the baby
sucking it i'll another.
If there is no dirt or filth there
will be no flies. 1t is up to every
individual citizen as well as to the
authorities, to wage the most un-
relenting war upon dirt and filth
to the end that this disease breed
ing pest may be wiped out.
Keep the flies out of your house,
if you value your life, and see that
there is nothing on your premises
that will breed flies, and if there is
anything on your neighbors prem
ises that will breed flies, incur his
displeasnre if need be, but protect
yourself, your wife and your child
rem, by insisting that he clean his
premises or that the city authori-
ties will do it for him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-05-20
MINING SCHOOL
Effort Towards its Estab-
lishment Made

The advantages of School OF
Mining in this county is apparent
to everyone and its establishment
should be urged by every citizen.
The Range Mining Captains" in
their assemblies have advocated an
institution of this kind. In speak
ing of.the move the Duluth News
Tribune editorially says:
The Mining CAPTAINS of the
ranges urgethat school of mines be
established in that section. They
are, of all men, in 4 position to
appreciate the need of such school,
as they are in immediate charge of
the mining operations and have
personal charge of the men on the
work.
They state thecase in nutshell
when they say they get men equip
ped in the theory of mining, but
with no practical knowledge or ex-
perience, or they get those with
the practical knowledge and exper-
fence, but with nothing of the
theory or science of mining. It is
quite essential that considerable
the larger the better,
have both these qualifications.
There was time when miners
rather scoffed at the theoretical
side of mining, just as farmers
scoffed at scientific agriculture.
The practical farmer called the in
stitute conductors andcollege grad
yates book farmers" and what
these advised they quite persistent
ly avoided.
They continued in this spirit of
until they saw results as
demonstrated by their more pro-
gressive neighbors. 1t shows a
broader spirit than this, a bigger
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-05-20
PASSED AWAY
Another of Ely's Old Set
tiers Passes Hence

Our people were grieved to learn
Wednesday afternoon that JOSEPH
Seraphine, ST.. had passed away al
his home in this city OF dropsy after
brief illness.
Mr.. Seraphine was born in
Switzerland, Europe, in 1855 an6
was at the time of his death IS
years of age. In 1870 his parents
immigrated to this country settling
in Upper Michigan where deceased
was married to Miss Locher. In
1898 after brief residence on the
Mesaba range at Virginia the
family removed to this city where
they have since resided.
In 1899, Mr.. Seraphine was Sc
verely injured in an explosion at
the Pioneer mine since which time
he has been practically unable to
perform manual labor. At the
time of his injuries, his life was
dispaired of for weeks but his
strong physical makeup pulled
him through.
Last week in COMPANY with Mrs.
Seraphine, he returned from a visit
to his old home in Ishpeming
where he had attended the golden
wedding celebration of the parents
of Mrs. Seraphine, He was ailing
when he returned and constantly
grew worse until Wednesday when
the end came.
He leaves a wife and two sons,
Joseph, Jr., and Jack. Jos. Jr., is
chief of police of this city and Jack
has for nearly thirteen years been
foreman of the Ely Miner. Jack
also holds the position of Alder
man of the First Ward and at the
organization meeting of the new
council in April was made Acting
Mayor. Mr.. Seraphine's mother,
a brother and a sister also survive
him, his mother being Is years of
age.
The funeral will be held Tuesday
from the Catholic church
in this city. Among the relatives
who are here from outside are Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Locfier and Mr..
and Mrs. Geo. Schmeltz, of Ish-
peming, Mich, Mrs. Louis Kaiser,
of Hibbing, Mrs. Dan Kinsman, of
Bull, and Ed. Locher, of Hibbing.
Chas. Seraphine, a brother of de-
ceased, has left Rossland, B. c.,
and will arrive here for the funeral.
The family have the sympathy
of the people of this city in their
bereavement.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-05-20
SCHOOL EXHIBIT
Annual Event Attended by
Over 1000 People

The Annual School Exhibit was
held in Ely Friday afternoon and
evening. The exhibit is pronounc-
ed by all to be one of the best that
was ever held here and shows that
the schoals are rapidly moving
ahead. 1t is estimated that over
1000 people attended the exhibits,
either at the grade schools in the
afternoon or the High School in
the evening.
The display consisted of samples
of academic, industrial, CONNER
cial and art work done by the
children. The drawing, water
colors and industrial work done by
the foreign children is particularly
fine and the display showed that
the regular common branches are
not being neglected. The work in
spelling, geography, history, arith-
metic and language was very conf
mendable. The map work drew a
great deal of comment. The sixth
grade at the Central school had
worked out large and complete in
dustria1 maps of Minnesota and of
the United States; the Lincoln
sixth grade maps in paper pulp,
-four and salt. The kindergartens
had unique doll houses and many
other attractive features. The in
dustria1 work in the lower grades
consisted of rugs, mats, hammocks,
baskets, blankets, slippers, tatns,
rafia hats, sweaters, doll clothes,
etc., and in the upper grades were
to be found sewing and useful
manual training articles of every
description.
At the High school building in
the evening the H. S. Band fur
nished music, and the cooking
room, wood working and the ma
chine shops were running full blast.
Immense crowds watched this work
all the evening. The finished
work in manual training and sew
ing and cooking was displayed on
the second floor. The teachers
rest room was entirely equipped
with furniture made by the boys
and with hand work of the art class.
In the manual training display
were four large tables, two morris
chairs, beautiful davenport, al
large mission clock, a dozen or
more, each, of pedestals, taboretts,
foot stools, Dutch leg rests, etc.
The sixth grade boys had each
made fine glove boxes out of war;
lous kinds of wood, the 9TH, book
racks of different designs, and the
9Th, magazine racks, book cases,
piano stools, umbrella racks and
many other articles. The wood
turning of the Sophomore boys and
The machine shop work Of the jun
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-05-20

ior and Senior boys attracted much
attention. The mechanical draw
ings made fine display.
In the Culinary department were
canned pears, peaches, peach man.
goes, plum preserves, tomato pre-.
serves, medley conserve, citron,
apple grape and orange marmalade,
crab apple and ounce and apple
jelly, grape juice, canned tomatoes,
peach conserve, one dozen cooking
note books, containing all the re-
cipes used during the year and the
theoretical work about each food
used, white bread, whole wheat
bread, ounce nut bread, baking
powder biscuit, fruit rolls, Parker
House rolls, stuffed beets, tapioca
pudding, sage pudding, ginger,
cocoa tea, hot water chocolate and
fried cakes, rhubarb and lemon pie,
cinnamon wheels, tarts, ginger
snaps, hermits, sand tarts, vani-
ties, veal croquetts, chocolate
drops, fondant waters, layer fon.
dant and stuffed dates.
The sewing exhibit consisted of
twenty gymnasium suits, FIVE shirt
waist suits, two tailored waists,
fifty canvas samplers showing the
various stitches, thirty two sewing
aprons, sixty cooking aprons,
twenty night dresses, twenty corset
covers, twenty pairs of drawers,
twenty combination suits, (corset
cover and drawers, } twelve sampler
note books containing stitches on
canvas, darning, patching, etc.
CHRISTMAS WORK, including
hat pin holders, neck tie holders,
pin cases, silver case, handkerchief
case, rubber case, pen wipers, pin
cushions, combing towels, etc.
The Art department made a
striking display with the follow
ing: STENCIL WoRK-One dozen
table runners, half dozen laundry
bags, half dozen pairs curtains.
LEATHER WoRK-One dozen
leather covered sewing bags, half
dozen leather and burlap pillows,
half dozen fooled leather belts, one
dozen fooled card cases and pocket
books, half dozen designed leather
and burlap center pieces and two
leather scissor cases. NEEDLE
WoRK-three embroidered waists,
half dozen Dutch collars, one center
piece, one pin cushion and several
beautiful pieces OF pottery, vases,
tiles, etc.
The commercial department had
samples of shorthand, typewriting,
PEN .anship, business forms and
bookkeeping. In the academic
work were exercises in geometry,
algebra, English, Latin, German,
History and all the various sciences.
Surely the local schools have rea-
son to be proud of their work.
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mentality and a more generous
viewpoint, when the mining capt
aims, many, if not most of them,
we are told, merely practical men.

viewpoint, when the mining capt
aims, many, if not most of them,
we are told, merely practical men,
urge the needs of scientific training.
They best can appreciate what
such a school would have meant to
them who lack this advantage.
They have had to pick up the the
DRY piecemeal through long years
of stress and difficulty, and that
they did not have it at the start
has made their work vastly harder
and their success more uncertain
and longer postponed.
More than this, they doubtless
want such school for their own
sons. 1t is one of the strongest
features of successful industry, one
of its greatest factors for progress,
and one of its fundamentals of per-
manency, when sons follow fathers
and generations after generations
engage in the same vocations.
Mining in this country has at least
a hundred years of growth and
activity before it, and then there
will still be large mines in operation
here.
The range towns have the best
schools of the state. They are
providing in this way the crucible
for amalgamating the sons of over
thirty nationalities with American
ideals. They are spending a con-
stantly increasing stream of money |
for this purpose, and are making a |
high grade of citizenship from the
second generation of southern
Europe.
The least the state can do is to
supplement this by a school of
mines to train these youngsters in
the scientific side of the vocation
they inherit from their fathers.
The least it can do is to give such
school to aid these same mining
captains in their work of making a
high grade of citizens from the
sons of what is commonly called
the lowest grade of the citizenship
of Europe.
1t should provide this encour-
agement and incentive to ambition.
But, more than that, such a school
by its training and experiments,
by its development of ability and
genius would soon bring into. use
methods and processes for making
available the lower grades of ore,
and for their conservation in the
intervening years, thus bringing
direct cash return to the state.
Such school should be estab-
lished. 1t should be asked from
the next legislature. 1t should be
located on the ranges in the very
midst of the mines, where active
operations would be constantly in
view, where the students would
live in the mining atmosphere and
where they would be at home.
All the range towns should
join in this movement, and Duluth
should back it. A good hard pull
altogether will land the institution,
and it can come none too soon.
Should the legislature see fit to
establish such an institution, we
cannot think of any better place to
locate it than on the Vermilion
range-right here in Ely. With
the largest and best grade ore mines
in the world, this range presents
stability for the next so years and
possibilities for an almost endless
period. The study of practical
on the Vermilion range
could be far more comprehensively
carried on than on the Mesaba
where mining conditions do not
present very serious problems only
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1910-05-20

Grant McMahan was a business
visitor in Tower the first of the.
week.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-14
CARRIED A COW
IN AN AUTOMOBILE
New York Farmer Used His
Car in Unique Fashion.

When Arthur Wheeler recently pur-
chased a COW IN Syracuse he employed a
Franklin automobile as a means OF
Transporting il to his farm at Cleveland.
n. Y. thirty-four miles away. The
fact that perhaps n touring car had
never before been used for such a pur-
pose did not deter him from using this
means Of getting his COW quickly from
one place to the other.
Mr.. Wheeler found no trouble in car
rying the COW safely over a roadway
which Is by no means easily travelled
with a much lighter load in the car
The tonneau was removed from the mo-
tor car, and In its place was quilt
small stall. With the aid Of two other
men he placed the COW In the car and
fastened il IN so that no harm would
come on the journey. The trip was made
in an hour and a half over roads deep
with the sand which surrounds Oneida
Lake. The motor car was then backed
against a terrace in front OF the farm
house. and without any trouble the cow
was backed out OF the car and led away
to its new pasture.
The next day Mr.. Wheeler bought two
calves and decided TO take them home
in the same way. As the rack which he
had used for carrying the COW had been
removed from the car. he loaded the
calves in the front seat. held their heads
with one hand and steered with the
other, while another man beside him
kept the animals from falling out.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-14
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billing. and that the ratio Of cars owned
to population is larger, than elsewhere
in the world.
He says that in that section OF the
State are 10000 Inhabitants. and this, on
a basis that five constitute the average
for a family. approximate $4,000 fami-
lies. Since the first of January 800 car
loads OF automobiles. averaging four TO
the load. have been received. thus adding
3,6C0 machines to the total which has
been increased to 1900. Mr.. Ham
lin maintains that, with one motor car
to each ten families, or fifty people, no
other part Of the world can equal the
record Of the south end of his State.
Thomas F. Murray is the latest pur-
chaser OF a Washington car Of the tour
ing type. finished in olive green. stsiped
with gold, and fully equipped.
The Washington FIRE department has
placed an order for a washington car
with the Carter Motor Car Corporation
OF this city. The car is Of the touring
type, and painted in dark carmine. It
is fully equipped in every respect, in
Guiding fire gong. locomotive bell. and
electric siren. The car IS for the ex-
elusive use OF Fire Chief Wagner.
J. c. Hoke has Just received his Wash
ineton car, finished in amber and striped
with gold.
The Lakewood model Of the Tozier au-
tomobile seats four passengers comfort
ably. but one Of the side doors is ar
ranged to drop outward and downward.
a folding chauffeur's seat. thus
giving the car seating capacity for i've.
G. C. Fransworth, OF the Metzgen Motor
Car Company, the makers Of the Everett