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Show Lelii Boy Is Making Good 1, Jinking u Slmly of A I fulfil Thrlns tar the Agricultural College. Earl Jones, a boii of Thomas Jones, returned homo this week rrom Milium county, where ho has been spending the pust two mouths studying tlio lite and habits of tho ulfalfa tlirips for the state Agrlsultural College. Mr. Jones was a student of tho collcgo luBt year, ihis uestructlvo llttlo Insect, about ouc-clghth of an inch in length, creutuig bucIi destruction In tho nclgntjorlioou of Hinckley, that tho aiiatta seed yields have fallen to but ate per cent or a crop, and nbsoluto lanurc Is tlireateneu. Mr. Jones lias earned, by tno use oi a compouuu microscope, that tno insect lays its eggs in tno tenner tissues ot tho leaves iiuu blossoms, ami atted multiplying suicrnl times during tlio seaBon, win Hibernate in tho roots or tho plant, n incs by tearing and sucking the leaves aau lluwers, causing tho latter to fan beloro becoming poiemzed. Tho little animal can bo round by shaking a bunch of luccrii blossoms In your hand. It is very active and under a compound microscope lookn almost iike a grasshopper. ho has gathered and mounted a lot of samples for uso at tho collcgo nud will continue tho study during tho next mouth, which ho will spend at home. Uo also says that tho alfalfa weevil is becoming rather numerous In Mll-lard Mll-lard county nud next year will cause (he farmers lots of troub'e. |