Show cootie his has high reproductive power the berous ness of the cootie problem demanding demand mi attention from american army officers and scientists in this country and abroad abro adla b indicated in experiments recently completed by an entomologist ol of the united states department of fax agriculture ri thebe experiments support the belief that thai the fecundity of the body louse has been greatly unde underestimated timatea ina in a period of 25 days one I 1 co cootie t 1 deposited eggs eggman an average of 11 a day with a maximum of 14 in 24 hours houra the period from deposition of the eggs to the final molt was waa 15 days day only 16 days claya elapsed in the period of development from abegg a egg to the egr begs laying adult the wristlet method was used in ia this the en eD gist watched the emergency emeri tency of the larva from eggs and allowed the larve larva to feed from his arm through the he periods of their life cycle |