The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-03-09


Iax> The about these
that all we'll known disease carriers which places
a special category the of mankind 1t is
we'll known that mosquitoes infect with malaria and
yellow parts this world otherwise ds
unnhabbe the prevalence of malaria
by mosquitoes 1t believed that ancient inhabitants this
other have been wiped disease
ed by today the OF
country retarded account of their
the number of bacteria that be carried
bout the body single fly but they invariably reach far into
obtained after careful The fly has long been
disease the slogan Swat the fly" has be-
the Epdemics of typhoid fever
and nfaue paralysis have been caused by the snvads and all
pevadg fly In Africa terrible sleeping sickness
OF that thereby
made uninhabitable.
Then there varieties which upon
blood the spotted fever and
cattle the Eastern and
tick after partaking of meal will weigh
from thirty times its original weight Lice are known to carry
ypu nAamato rheumatism and deas transmit the plague
They enough without the disease incubus and close
usually sought.
Surely this is grim picture contemplate, and it not
the that so these destroyed by natural
conditions them might indeed be in
the host vermin that attack domestic animals and
disease them for natural checks and
mans fight with dip and fumigaioD there would be single ami
NAL left within
many of these insects used for dyes,
has replaced these primitive
readily obtained material this
their spread. The
work scientists by and national for
High schools colleges and universities have
the work Agricultural horticultural and live stock societies
all the land employing the best talent to find and make
all who the best and fight the bug
If eternal vigilance for few starvation
would in the face
In years this has been effectua-
H fought by employing the natural enemes for would that
for destructive insect life another form of life
found they tending keep nature state of
equilibrium. To the moth families the destroyers of
in
duced than thirty parasites and predatory beetles accord
ing Professor Eaand In order its
prolific and has provided for this
that parasites produce containing than one
larva
Another fighting keeping them
producing and scattering ungod diseases
among them.
Birds the bugs and the destruction all
birds chicken woodcock quail
pigeon pov meadowa and Others has the United States
millions of dollars Shields president of the
League Spormen recently said that lost 100 mill
boil weev these birds which form
ly were found in by
reckless chnc have wheat
dollars and the hessn fly 200 million 1t takes
weigh and nearly 5000 hessian
flies to weigh killed in Ohio had in 1909
chnch bugs killed Kansas wheat6eld had 1000 hes
Shields said that II million dol
and quail killed Pennsylvania had
potato Mrs Margaret M Nice of the Massa
after estimated that quail de-
annually As for mans self preservation
therefore, Of Importance the slaughter of these
birds and encourage their propagation
So it is the Insignificant in the dust has been the
cause of much applied Its will live has
roed men into deeper investigation efficiency methods
of exermnaton But fight has begun Man will probably
win but will finally him after ALL thus completing the
cycle described Shakespeare in Hamlet, when he
"A man may fsh with the that hath a king,
And the fish that hath fed of the worm.'
All that harmony Thee Universe, in harmony with
me az WELL Nothing the right Thee
ary or too late Everything that Thy
bring All things of Thee have their being Thee
and return to Thee-Marcus Aurelius.