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Show Ladybirds to Kill Scale Insects. The grli ulturul tl larlmnit Is taking ta-king nlvntitaRu of in wisdom em b did In the old roupl t whl.h tle-elires tle-elires that nil thlnrs from men to biiRs 'have othet tiut,a to bite em, nnd so on ml Infinitum ' Ihe Sin Jose scale vv hlth is u little gin), non-me nnderlng lnect is now to be attacked b a powerful, alert eneni) In the shape of 11 lnd)buR Just obtained from a ills trltt In I'lilnn north of Peking Two nt thosi lnd hugs, prngenitois of the inn'.-tltudi inn'.-tltudi th it tiro to eat up the scale tost JIIKKl The tlltMiven of the home of the Pan .lost stale In rhlnn and of Its natuiul onunv wns tnndu bj C K Mnrlalt, I lilt f nsslslnnt entomologist of the deportment de-portment He spent a enr In the einiili and spent IOOO the ilepartiuent pnvlng iine-llfth of his expenses Ills stnv of what ho hopes to accomplish Is interesting to thti"t who have sun their on li irds curl up and die with h'in scale lie sill 1 in Hie tourre of mv Investlgitlnns In 1 lilnn I ran across n little lad) bird, quite similar In supei filial n peantnee to lite ladybirds In this tnuntr) It wns fouling on the emit making 11 Rood living off of twent) to lift) si nle II da) In some plans whin Hie lad), birds were plentiful I eiw thit the si nle was RPttlngittn woisl if It I lore was Hie iialutal cm m) that I had liei 11 kinking for I look pltnti of time and sntlslltd mjiilf nn tin point Tho lnd)- bird Is hli mi almilfi mi 1 iih, twill known to un nn I htsti I box, 1 up 1 0 in .ml ,,f the life, ts nit el) giving th. in pi ttv of stale In feted twigs in nnl 111 mid ent them b nintl from Piking to W nsliiiiRton The tilp talus th nt iveti six weeks The lad) birds wur tindlv sh iki 11 up bv their long Joiirnt) and lonllnement Onlv twint) or thirl) got tliimigli alive anil all of thtse soon dletl except two That whs list fall 'lheie whs nobo.1) here who was siitllclentl) Hiqualnttil with their habits to nurse them ami lonserve their strength Toitunntel) oiu of the survlvom vvas a fern lie W lien I arrived vve took great pains with hei, mid were gi stilled sti-lled In due limp when she prndtlteil a little fiinll) of about 800 voting We rigged up wire netting over a numbti of senl) treis we havp here In the ground and set Hie vnutigstcrs tn wnrk The m tllng prevenled tin lad) -birds from mllng on the old suggestion nnd HjliiK awn) home' while leaving Iheni In tin open air 'lliey tlirlvetl from the Mail ami we now havp n set ond gtliinillnti of at lenst lOUtl Individuals Indi-viduals We shall send the lnd)blnls to experiment ex-periment sti'lioiui nnd lo ollurs who know how to take uir, or Iln 111 nnd thus In i short time then will be we hope thriving uiloules In vnrious jinrts of the toiinir) nil feeding on Hu Sun lose stiil s thtlr numbers hu tense, we shall hpiuI sm ill udonlea In indl-virtual indl-virtual f irtnors1 |