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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14773, 12 October 1921, Page 2

rn the little old town of Rr X jey. England, behind an ordinary house in a quiet street, is the only "caterpillar farm" in England. To the stranger's eyes the "farm" is a garden filled with saplings, among whose branches liana what appear to be miniature airships, but which are really gauze cages containing the caterpillars of butterflies and moths of all species found in Britain, "fattening up" before uminchrysalis form. They beloncr to the "stock" of Mr L. W. Newman, a Fellow of the Entomological Society, who makes a business of catchim.' butlerflies and moths and "domes!iraling" their offspring. "We farm butlerllies and moths just as one mi. Mil farm chickens." Mr W. Webster, who acts as "bailiff" on Hi,- larm. said to a Daily Mail reporter: "Mr "Newman 'hunts' the insects, brinu.s them home, 'tames' them, and breeds them. We have customers all over Ihe country, especially ainonir school authorities and school children. Children have a passion for collecting butterflies and moths." 'ire' nransrc-liii butterfly In Mr Newman's dead colfection is |OJ ;.e.i-■■, •-.).; hul ilj bcillianl coloiirinv D unciinmvfid.