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Show Take Hint from Idiot Scientists have been following with great success the method first recommended by the village idiot, in the old story. It will be remembered that when the village cow went astray and nobody else could find it, the idiot solved the problem by going to the last place where Bossy had been seen and "thinking what I would do if I were a cow." Scientists have been trying the same tactics on the cotton cot-ton boll weevil. They found that weevil larvae would leave the most tempting foods and make in the direction of cotton buds, at distances too great for any sense but smell. The scientits could smell nothing themselves, but they distilled the buds to concentrate their odorif erences essences. They found a mixture of several, separated these and tried each on sample weevils. The most attractive turned out to be one that can be produced cheaply from sugar-beet waste. So now, having found out what a weevil likes, they are going to use it as bait, to entice him into traps of poison. , |