EVEN INSECTS.
Insect posts are like boys and "ins We are sorry to say so, but entomologists have forced it on us. They say that the pests which prey upon cottongrowing districts only detest one tliiujr and that is castor oil. '■ *" Chemists have invented other things but one expert says that they are only palliatives, and that the sole way to frighten the insects away altogether is to use castor oil. Of course, planters cannot chase.individualinsects with a bottle and a spoon, so it is proposed that they should grow castor plants between the rows of cotton plants In this way they will have less room for cotton, but if they get rid of the insects they will produce more of it. and the castor crop will also bring in money
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1927, Page 14
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131EVEN INSECTS. Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1927, Page 14
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