| Show HERES A CHANCE TO SELL YOUR BEDBUGS bedbugs are selling at the iafe i afe of 10 cents a hundred in the columbus market just now A market price was set when percy P a graduate student in in the ohio state university who is making a speciality of entomology advertised for an unlimited number of the insects for experimental peri mental purposes prof welt berger who took his bachelors degree at columbus last year is just now studying for his masters degree in explanation of his peculiar advertisement he explained that he was making an exhaustive study of the agene agency 7 of these insects that inhabit the homes of men and belong to what are called the bloodsucking insects in spreading diseases it was generally believed he said that they were as effective in spreading c certain e ertain diseases such as typhus fever as the mosquito was known to be with malaria but so far as he knew no one had yet caught the bedbug with the goods on it he wants to establish the truth of the matter by a series of experiments peri ments which he will proceed to make bedbugs are pretty scarce said prof in this city I 1 undertook to gather enough for some eapen experiments myself but after exploring a number of abandoned houses in which one would suppose they would be found if they were anywhere I 1 gave it up after getting only half dozen which is not enough to begin with and have advertised |
