Show Great Britain Begins Parasite War z Bugs Raised to Enter Big Battles A 1 j r 1 i 4 T I Extreme care Is Js taken by British entomologists In breeding parasites for the great rea war on destructive in In- In sects At Royal noal for instance Ins nce bell Jars at a left cr CO individual pear plants alive ale al e with wish the harmful p pear ar slug worm forni while at the right ht larger luCer plants outside are sleeved ed when hen breeding parasites p The bughouse Is shown In la Inset By BRONNER DRO IR KEA TA Service Writer Nov No 5 England England now LONDON L' L L has ha an official bughouse No No its It's not a lunatic asylum Its It's a real Teal bughouse Its It's a place where one of the big big- biggest biggest gest wars ars in history is being care- care carefully carefully fully ully prepared by br entomologists This war Is to be le waged shortly In in every part art of the th British empire It will be a war ar of parasites on parasites There are all kinds of f Insects that are destructive parasites p to what man grows in the theay way ay of food f d. timber and plants But hap- hap happily happily for man there are parasites that hat prey upon these parasites s. s Set loose the thc latter and they will des des- destroy destroy destroy troy the former Only there Is a catch to it The parasites upon parasites are also apt to o have parasites So the bug soldiers of the British empire must be clean elcan soldiers BUGS DUGS GET SCRUBBING Just as British soldiers after a term lerm In the trenches went to de de- delousing delousing lousing stations so these soldier parasites are to lo be scrubbed ser up as It were and dry-cleaned dry so that none of their tiny lIny enemies cilI Ill travel traul with them I All this interesting and tremendously tremendously I important work rork is being done in what was once a typical pleasant English country mansion at Farnham Royal floyal in leafy The laboratory is under control of the Imperial board of entomology which has Just received Cd a large money grant from the empire marketing board It has been found that one- one tenth of the worlds world's crops are arc dc- dc destroyed every year ear by y insect pests In Canada alone field crops lose Jose duo to pests In ad addition ad- ad addition the spruce bud worm ruins worth of spruce and fir trees Australia loses every cry year jear ear sheep worth through the activities of the thc blow Sly fly and In Inthe the state of Queensland there is an annual loss of to the sugar sugarcane sugarcane sugarcane cane growers because of the the cane grub MANY T PESTS TO FIGHT The boll worm destroys destroy's empire crops of cotton The codling moth ruins millions of apples In In Australia New Zealand Canada and South L Africa Other Other pests arc the earwig the tsetse fly the wheat stem saw sawfly sawfly fly fl the corn borer and the thc lucerne flea Lucky for man all of these pests have parasites which destroy them Its It's the business of Farnham to Ie breed these parasites by billions and add a d send them all over the British empire But this sending out of para pars parasites parasites sites is a ticklish business In the S first place Farnham Royal noyal will wil I have hase to be sure that it is sending out the proper parasites They must bs tee friendly not cn enemy my In the thc S second place they must roust be free of oi Another Another bunch of parasites is is I II being g bred bied specially to deal nth v.-ith I vegetable pests Years ago the prickly P pear peor got Into Australia It now r covers millions of of acres Parasites S are arc going to be sent out o t to d destroy d r Sr this nuisance When the Farnham Royal Rol Ro- Ro l bug but bughouse house gets into full full blast it it is I hoped to save countless millions S for br the empire emp e |