Show SCIENCE TAKES LINT HINT FROM F O TIll TILE Scientists have ha been following with Ith great success the method first recommended by b the village idiot in the thc old story It will be remembered that when the vintage cow went astray and nobody else could find it the idiot solved the problem by going to the last Iut place where Bossy DOMy had been seen and thinking what hat 1 I would woul l do If it 1 I were a 11 cow Scientists have been trying the same tactics on the cotton boll weevil They found that weevil larvae would leave the most tempting foods and a nd make In the direction of oC cotton collon buds at distances too great for any sense senile but smell The ThO scientists could smell amell nothing noth noth- nothing nothIng ing themselves th but they distilled to concentrate their odoriferous essences They found a II mixture of several separated these and n tried each on oil sample a lly weevils The Tho h most moat s attractive ra turn turn- turned turned ed out to be one that can bo be pro pro- produced produced produced cheaply from rom beet sugar waste So now having having- found out what wha a weevil likes like they are going to tou u use uee e It as bait to entice him Into traps trails or poison tolson Science once more mon li is simply common sense BenS applied with al ste- ste matte exactness |