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Show uu Government Experts Are Now Trying (o Trap Them Washington, Jan 2. Trapping ants is a new method of elimination of insect ppsts the departmenUof agriculture agricul-ture expeits aie watching. In Louis-liana Louis-liana and California, theg." Argentine-I Argentine-I ant, the most persistent, ever known bv tho biologists or the government, i has been damaging horticulture b I carrving scale insects from infeted into "the unisnfeted tree$,vand all antl-, antl-, ant campaigns have so far Jailed as to i this species ' I According- to the department, the I ant p'obably was adoptedfinto this I countrv dur'ng the New Oceans cot-jion cot-jion exposition in 1SS4. TJie ants spread through the city, poved a great nuisance to the stores and houses and swarmed into the houses to such an extent, according to the department, "that it was dangeious to j let babies go to sleep in their cradles 1 because the ants would get in then-eyes, then-eyes, and travel all over them. At Ba-i Ba-i ton Rouge they were particularly dan-I dan-I gerous and troublceoine." Galifcrnit authorities who are col-labviatlng col-labviatlng with the department have considered a trapping process that they think favorably of and in Louisiana Louis-iana 'flooding may control the pest. |