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Show WAR ON CATAPIUAB8. Oorpe ef Tree Uefenden Organised to Destroy in Poll, Fatrmount park, Philadelphia, haa a caterpillar crops composed of men who do nothing but scrub down the shade trees and kill the dislodged Insects. Tha Implement used Is simply sn or-llnary or-llnary scrubbing brush nailed to a long pole, and It takes considerable endurance to keep lip iuch work all fay. Aa soon as the caterpillars touch the ground they Hart to climb the tree again, and the men have to step lively to kill all the fallen ones. Bald one of . - - - 1-1- wwfMVwnnArm I them the other day, according to the I Philadelphia Record; "This Is the only roally effoctlve way of getting rid ot I the peeta. I have tried other wayi, I hut they were no good. Take tar traps, for Instance. I have watched caterpillars cater-pillars wriggle their way out of their fur, leaving It In the tar. Poisons, Instead In-stead of killing them, seem to make them fit. I took one of these lotions to a drug store, where I had bought It, 1 and told the man It wui worthless. 'Just pour some ot it down a caterpillar'! caterpil-lar'! throat and see If he doesn't die,' said the druggist. 'You're foolish I said. 'You've got to catch your eater- , pillar flret to do that, and after ym've caught him you might as well stamp on blm, and then you know he's dead." |