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Subscribers desiring the paper sent to a differ ent address shot’” ’ " " at least twc change is ma ers uesiinig me paper sent to a auier- 5 should inform the Business Manager /o weeks before the contemplated tade. ^ * Entered as second-class matter at College Station, Texas. February 17, 1905. PRICE PER ANNUM . . . $1.25 WEDNESDAY. FEBRUA’Y 26, 1908 Aini it is going to take a long time to build down to the Argentine border too. Everything in Bolivia is very high Foi instance a pair of $3.00 Ameiiean, shoes costs 22-25 Bolivianos—a BoF- viano is about 39 cents gold. They have practically nothing in Resources except minerals and they are not ac cessible for any transportation, I mean in the part where the Bolivia railway is. Down in the valleys they can grow arything, and have fine timber, but they can not get it out. There' is not much prospect of getting a rail road to it. All the Bolivian money (nearly) is paper. They do not value the money very highly, for if they want 50 cents change, they tear a $1.00 bill in two. Any bill can be torn in half. They say that they are. going to get some geld money soon. The Indians here are very “low- grade” and only a few of them speak Spanish, and it is not easy to learn th< Aimara which they speak. I am not sure, but I think there are only 80,- 000 pure Spanish speaking people in the republic. The Bolivian can not compare with the Mexican in intelligence, energy’, looks or any thing else, and the In dians are almost worthless. They are waiting now to get several hundred Japanese for the railroad work. The Indian dress is peculiar. Tim men wear “eton jacket” for a coat and it is “kinder scalloped” on the bot tom and on comes only to the ewaist. The trousers come only a little below the knee, and from the knee down are split and lined with some kind of col ored cloth. They wear the hair about si; inches long and cut the same length all the way round and a string tied around the head. % The women wear a tight fitting waist tut a very loose skirt, and the skirt comes about half way between the knee and ground. I do not know, but I imagine that a hoop skirt would' not be “in it” with one of these Indians. There are eleven engineer assistants here. One is an American, one Swiss, one Hungarian, one Russian, one Pe ruvian, and the others Bolivians. The cook is a Frenchman and I think the waiter is an Italian. You see we nave a pretty good mixture. The company is very liberal with requisitions, so we live pretty well. Well, I am too sleepy to write more so will close. Remember me to every one I know and love. N. Lockett, Jr. C Bolivia R. R. Casilla 428. FORMER PROFESSOR HEARD FROM. Friday evening, January 24th, the Clemson College Science Club held its January meeting. The program for the evening consisted in the discussion of two topics—one by Prof. Styles Q. Howard, “A Dynamometer for Testing Automohlies,” the other by Prof. A. F. Conradi, associate professor of ento mology, “Bug versus Bug.” Prof. Howard gave in detail the me chanics and use of the new testing apparatus by which purchasers and prospective purchasers of automobiles can satisfy themselves that the claims made by manufacturers of machines as to horse-power, hill climbing abil ity, etc., are true or not as the case may be. * The subject of Prof. Conradi’s pa per suggests the general trend of the thought in it—to fight insect pests by means of predaceous insects which are the natural enemies of those pests. It is a striking fact that our native or indigenous insect pests are not of any considerable damage in our own coun try; only the introduced species are very destructive and this is because very tdestructive; and this is because their natural enemies have not yet been brought into the country or have not become established. This point was brought very clearly and by several illustrations showed that, though spraying and other artificial means may be applied with a consid erable degree of success, the cheap-st and mdst effective way of checking the spread of an insect is by seeking out in the original home of the pest its natural enemy and introducing that by acclimation. The case of the boll weevil in Texas was an illustration given. In Cameron country, the little red ant, a predaceous insect lives in abundance, and is very fond of the boll weevil as a food. As a conse quence, the two cannot thrive well to gether, and the ant gets tne better of the struggle. A large crop of boll weevils means a large crop of ants;and often the ants become so numerous that the boll weevils do not supply a sufficient quantity of food for them. This ant has been distributed to other parts of Texas with success. Ofter, though, such a large number of nat ural enemies are developed on ac count of the large crop of the pest, that upon the destruction of the latter, there is no danger lest the beneficial insdet should be starved to death. This should, be attended to. and a supply of the species always kept on hand. The cabbage louse and melon louse, were other instances cited. They both have the same natural enemy, the lady bug. If a crop of rape be planted previous to the planting of the melons, and hear the same place, the cabbage lice infesting it will be sufficient food to grow a sufficiently large number of lady bugs to control the melon lice when they occur. If the rape be killed at this time the lady bugs are forced to migrate to the mel on patch and feed upon the melon lice. In the future the principal aim of eceomomic entomology will be the introduction and propagation of the natural enemies of the insect pests with which we will have to contend. TEXAS WORK RECEIVES RECOGNI- TION. Prof. Welborn’s Book ^Adopted by State Board. Prof. W. C. Welhorn, vice-director of the Experiment Station, has been suc cessful in placing his book, “The Ele ments of Agriculture before the pub lic. His work was adopted by the State Text Book Board for the public scnools at their recent meeting. The farmers’ institute movement is to profit by this as the profits from the sale of the wmrk are to be used in its further ance. The book was written with the double purpose of furnishing informa tion to the stockman and farmer and still not made so technical as to make it unfit for use in the public schools. Many farmers have ex pressed themselves^ as desiring to read the book. ALUMN iJ^JOTES. R. S. Black, ’07,, writes that he is now employed as levelman on the C. R. Y. & P. Ry. at Nogles, Mexico. F. S. Pfeuffer, ’85, is manager of the American Colony of Omaja, Real Es tate, Cuba. R. G. Littlejohn, ’91, is deputy city assessor and collector, city hall. Ft. Ydorth, Texas. H. Rubenkesing,’04. is i-ow with the Kansas City Southern R. R. Co. His address is 1603 N.'Grand Ave., Pitts burg, Kansas. E. G. Aboott, ’94, is captain in Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. Army, at Fort Warden, Washington. C. E. Burgoon, ’95, is chief Engineer, Custom House, at New York City', room 69. - J. L. Cruse, J. M. Carson Jr., J. W. Carson, A. J. Neff and G. R. Abney at tended the meeting of the A. and M. Alumni in Houston last Saturday. F. M. Law and R. W. Howell repre sented the Bryan Alumni at Houston Saturday. B. C. Pittuck, ’94, was in Bryan last week to attend a meeting of the ex ecutive committee of the alnumni as sociation. He is now president of the Powhattan Milling Co., Dallas, Texas. V. H. Foy, 02, was on the campus a couple of days last week. He was sent d' wn by the Palestine A. and M. Club, t > inquire into/ th.dM’tjcent trouble. W. E. Crow, ’.98, is a practicing phy sician in Dallas, Tex^s. E. C. ^.arlyle, ’06, attended Sunday sciiool in Bryan Sunday. Set the Pace. Young Mabel had a habit when soup was served at the table of mushing her crackers or bread in it until it was a great mess. Her mother made many efforts to have her correct this strictly primeval habit. One day there was to be company at the table, and the mother said: “Now, Mabel, Mrs. Brown is to dint with us tonight, and I war?t you to act at the table just as nicely as she does Please don’t ‘mush’ your soup.” Mabel promised faithfully to follow the example set by Mrs. Brown, and the dinner opened with every promise of a fine time. However, Mabel was using a pair of very sharp eyes on Mrs. Brown and in an instant blurted forth at the top of her voice; “Oh. mamma. Mrs. Brown is ‘mush ing:’ May I?” CHAPEL SERVICES. Rev. Williams of the Baptist Semin ary *at Waco occupied the pulpit Sun day morning. His theme, the Suprem acy of Christianity was handled in a vry able maner. By comparing the Bible with the Vedas, the Koran and the. "works of Zoroaster and Confu- ciusr the beauty and strength of Chris tianity;- .was. shown. Many. passages from the scriptures were quoted in sup port of his subject. The address was delivered in a forcible manner and was heard with interest by all. 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