The Holbrook news., 1910-04-29
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Alum, according to Adele NJ. Field. is perfect preventive of the ravages of moths among wcolens. While living in China she gave this method of pro tecting clothing a thorough test. The articles should be soaked in a sat urated solution of alum for several hours. The fabric is not injured and the colOrs are not changed. The alum does not evaporate, and the articles thus treated remain moth-proof for years. It is suggested that a pound of crude alum in four quarts of water would make an effective solution for employment by manufacturers of wool .n cloth, rugs and carpets.
 The debt of industry to science has often, and very properly, been pro- claimed but now the reverse is an- nounced. The National Electric Lamp Association has established at Cleve- land a physical laboratory, which the director. Dr. E. P. Hyde, declares has for it's object the development of sci . ence rather than the improvement of an industrial commodity. In this re spect it differs from the many labora- tories that have in recent years been established in connection with large manufacturing concerns. Among the objects of research will be the laws of radiation and the radiant properties of matter, and the effects of light and its attendant phenomena on the eye, the skin, and microscopic organisms. A corps of investigators is being formed.
 A female alligator four and a half feet long, species Alligator Mississip- piensis, was recently captured in cen tral Oklahoma, in bayou of the South Canadian River. H. Fl. Lane, of the University of Oklahoma, believes that the animal had travelled up the Ar kansas River to the mouth of the Ca nadian, and thence to the point where it was found, a distance of some $50 or 400 miles west of the Arkansas Oklahoma State line The Canadian River is not navigable, and during most of the year is only a small mean dering creek in a wide valley. The alligator had been in the neighbor- hood at least three years before it's capture. Its skeleton is now in the university museum, where the lone traveller is also commemora.ed by a life-lille model.
 There are three black fox farms near Atherton, Prince Edwards Island. where these animals are raised for their skins. These farms contain twen- ty, twenty-five and thirty foxes re- spectively The skins are sold in Lon- don at prices ranging from $500 to 31 800 each. according to quality. The fur is used for ornamenting the cloaks of royalty. as it is the only fur to which gold will cling. One farm is on an island. another in a rough, broken woods country. where the animals are confined by heavy wOven-wire netting. The wire is set in the ground two or three feet, in order to keep the foxes from burrowing under, and is about eight feet high above ground, with curve inwardly at the top of each post of another three or four feet of wire, in order to keep them from climbing over the fence They sleep in the open the year round. in hollow trees and in hollow logs. They are fed princi- pally on oats and milk and bread and milk, with a small quantity of cooked meat once a day at noon, the amount of meat being lessened during the sum- mer. These animals are very wild. and no one can get near them except the keeper and he only when he brings them food.