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THE BATTALION.
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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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