Show eucalyptus and malaria what Is the connection between the eucalyptus and the disappearance of the malarial trouble 7 this has been only very recently explained there Is probably no tree having a greater avidity for water than the eucalyptus experiments with seedlings grown in water have shown that a baby blue gum will take up the liquid at an extremely rapid rate As the blue gums trow grow at a marvelous rate often as much moch as ten or twelve feet Is added to their height in a single season the consumption of moisture from the boll goes on oa at a rapidly increasing rate now it Is well known that the malarial poison Is introduced into the blood of man through the agency of a certain vaLri variety ety of mosquito anopheles and the dwelling place of these insects when in the larval stage staga Is to be found in pools of water with the planting of the eucalyptus trees the poola pool disappear and the marshy land becomes comparatively dry thus the breeding places of the mosquitoes are destroyed and the insects are no longer able to carry on their pernicious activities S leonard bastin bastan in st Nic nicholad holan |