| Show T r. 1 1 M MAI MAKING GOOD JOI IhA IN II INA IIA 1 A SMALL TOWN Real Stories About Real Gir Girls GirU I By MRS HARLAND H. H ALLEN f o M I N I I M I 1 1 I K I H-H-H H I 1 I I I I I 1 I I J I M-H-H-H- M I I I I f 4 BAGGING BUTTERFLIES BUTTERFLIES- IN BOTTLES I 1 T THAT HAT dream of picking dollars out of the air may come true truc yet for yet for the girl Irl who becomes a butterfly but- but collector Moreover r romance as os well as os fl- fl j 1 nance nanee nuts may he be her consideration The thrill of the artist at the discovery I of a n rare and beautiful thing that that's p how a n California girl an nn Initiate to the advantages of butterfly collecting sums stuns up the wonders of her work And nd the more rare and beautiful the butterflies she captures the greater great great- rent rent- er 1 IH her r material returns she might have hove added The butterfly chase takes place at night But the butterfly collector must make daylight preparations she must have smeared the bark of the trees on the butterfly hutterly farm with a aBnet sweet net and und sticky substance such as sugar water or diluted hone honey and she must mist equip herself for the nocturnal nocturnal noc noc- cha chase e with a wide mouthed bottle containing cyanide and a n bullseye hulls hull's eye PP lamp After the captured tl fly as ns the technical trade dubs the beautiful ful rul creature Is dazzled by the lamp it I Is dropped Into the bottle to beI be I asphyxiated After the nl nights night's ht's catch cutch damaged tonic mole butterflies are a again turned loose while all nIl perfect specimens are pinned d In rork line boxes und and shipped to the purchaser Larvae and eggs may tray he be kept In cold storage until spring when their particular food plant will he be available Il or fed on forage forage for for- I age Ie e crops which are grown Indoors Indoor The eggs s of some same butterflies will hatch within a n few days daya while others will i not come conic out until spring The collector collector col col- col lector should hould keep the eggs es In ordinary nary glass test tubes tube where she cEm can examine them every day to see fee whether er they II have e hatched When the they do hatch the work brood should be transferred transferred trans trans- to a n Jelly glass s tightly covered and left until the they attain a n quarter of an Inch In hl length Later the they should be Iw placed in larger fruit Jars or If It there here are er very many Into barrels Several Sp Inches s of or dirt and leaf lent mould should be he placed in the bottom of each ench receptacle and fresh plant food tood should he be put In every day and und tb tha 1 old leaves taken out Butterfly rn markets are ore ninny many C I- I J l and schools hl big museums museum t Vj Jewelry je manufacturer so so- 1 clet clety people hotels cl department stores store arll and private collectors bu buy them either for ell scientific or display purposes J Q 1924 1524 Western Newspaper Union |
