The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-19
EXPLAINS HOW TO
|5WAI MOSQUITOES
department Of Agriculture Calls
Them Great Menace and Warns
as to Precautions.

xhildren in the country, and lots OF
grown people too, may soon be eating
@-chocolate candy at government ex-
6<.pense II the suggestions are carried
<.out that are embodied in Farmers
IBulletin No. 450: Some Facts About
Malaria" just issued by the United
States Department OF Agriculture,
says a special TO the New York World.
Eating chocolate-coated tannate OF
Quinine bonbons Is one OF the three
methods recommended by Uncle Sam
for Kidding America OF chills and few
4 or 1.-THE quIninization method, or
n standardization method as II Is called
4 by the Germans and the !. Italians"
I says the Bulletin, has been used by
4 the Germans in East Africa and by the
4 Italians and to some extent by the
I English in India. In Italy, by the
L means OF mechanical protection
I (screens, wells and gloves), the malar-
( ia was reduced from 65 to 20 per cent
4 down TO IA per cent, but here 1t held.
THE quininiZation method was then
4 introduced, and the general malaria
I rate for Italy has by its means been
I reduced TO less than per cent This
4 method consists in the free distribu-
h ton OF quinine to all laborers and 10
/ the poor living In malarious neighbor-
hoods The quinine is prepared in It's
most agreeable form, as confectionery
and principally as chocolates, the lat
ter containing tannate OF quinine,
which Is not so hitter. Ii Is more easy
Ito induce children and those adults
Il who cannot tolerate the ordinary gum
& Inc salts to take the quinine In this
form
THE other methods recommended
are the mechanical screens. wells and
a gloves-and systematic destruction of
4 the malarious mosquitoes. The me
1 chanicai. Il Is stated, has been very
successfully applied at Italian railway
/ stations
Look Out for the Night Bitter.
Malarious mosquitoes bite only after
dark. Uncle Sam says, so that if farm
4 ers win 20 to bed at sunset and stay !
there till break o. day they may es-
cape fever, and agne. provided they |
put screens in the windows.
AS to- the immense Importance OF a /
national campaign against mosquitoes
HE secretary of agriculture says there 1
@|U8IE Ildti( lOCdliilCSN III Tue
States where the prevalence Of malar-
ria, In an aggravated form is serious
barrier TO agricultural or industrial de-
.telopment
1.-THE lands OF the delta region OF ,
Mississippi and adjoining States,
says the secretary, ARE the richest In
the whole world, With the possible ex-t
<ception OF the delta of the Nile, and
yet on account OF the extraordinary
prevalence OF malaria in that region
z II isssparsely settled apd iand prices
are low The advance. Of the cotton
boil weevii into this section has had
I rs customary effect OF driving Q can
<Siderable sBfoportion of the Negro lab
F.or into other regions not yet invaded;
and unless the country Is to become
;htmpoyerished' ft wiff"be, necessary to-
Import white labor. Negroes are more.
&Dr less resistant tie malaria bur this
will not be true OF the white labor
<coming into this region. which VIII
3undoubtedly become rapidly infected
with the disease.
" Malaria. the secretary OF agricnltGre
tells the farmers. ~ caused by micro
scopie one-celled flasmoaia parasites
s1n the blood. which feed upon the red
q forpuscles. These minute parasites,
1.-the government says. are introduced
9 Into the blood through the proboscis,
t'or .snout, of certain mosquitoes OF the
Anopheles breed. The tiny creatures
In the veins and arteries are no be-
y levers in rHce suicide. for in n few
hours a single couple will have q
, progeny OF millions. When the young
germs escape from the red blood cells
1fhpy cause in the blood a malariRl
fever. -
Dangers Of Malaria.
" Anaemia ana enlargement OF the
D1een are common effects of malaria.
kicb also weakens the constitution,
that death may come from pneu-
MIA or dysentery. Finally, after
raj years OF infection with maiar-1
person becomes immune. -of .ae--
D1fIines There are three kinds of
b Rerms--the quartan-fever kind,
e tertian-fever kind. and the malig-
mt kind.
The government assures the farm
Is TINT s grains OF sulphate OF quin-
De taken by an adult every day for
BUR months will rid the system OF all
Inds of1malarfous mosquitoes:
An0pheles observation-disclosures, found
u the north. ~
Anopheles Crnclans lno relation OF
Mary Ann's), found in the south
4 Anopheles Punctipennis, found both
north and south.
None of the anopheles has spotted
wings. and when they settle on a wall
t their bodies incline away from the
wall NJ an angle. They do not squat
Ike fbe ordinary lmosuuitto, and they.
ore more classy In their diet. Also
fheytdo not. In their childhood days,
40 Through the silly upsidedown aero
mtic stnntssof ordinary mosquitoes I'm
ISain barrels and pools OF water They
lead an active and persistent, but dig
nified. existence
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