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The eggs are lemon-yellow and quite small — necessarily small 

 for a female beetle lays from forty-five to sixty-five eggs in a day. 

 In her laying season, which covers about six weeks, she lays from 

 two hundred to three hundred eggs. These are deposited in 

 clusters of five or six, set on end and fastened to the plant with a 

 sticky substance. Under a strong magnifying glass one of these 

 tiny eggs has a well defined color-pattern. The first sign of 

 hatching is a tiny dark spot near the end that is attached to the 

 plant. As this spot increases the egg has a tendency to swell in 

 the middle and by pressing against the other eggs will become 

 indented. Finally the larva seems to change position within the 

 egg for it gnaws its way through the outer end of the egg. When 

 the minute, white larva emerges it crawls around the top of the 

 shell a few times and then leisurely begins a search for food. 



Book Review 



The Holy Earth. L.H.Bailey. P. 171.. Scribner's. $1.00. 



The thesis with which Professor Bailey starts this delightful 

 series of essays is that the earth is good, it is kindly, it is holy. 

 The bulk of the book is taken up with the consequence of these 

 attributes. Some selections taken at various points in the book 

 will give the reader some notion of the content, sufficient, it is 

 hoped, to insure his perusal of the entire volume. 



"Man has dominion but he has no commission to devastate." 



"No vanishment of the earth or monopolistic control of its 

 bounties, will build a stable society." " If we may fraternize terri- 

 tory, so shall we fraternize commerce. No people may rightly be 

 denied the privilege to trade with all other peoples." 



"This means a new division and perhaps a redistribution of lands 

 in such a way that the farmer will have his due proposition of hill 

 and of valley, rather than that one shall have all valley and another 

 all hard-scrabble on the hill or all waste land in some remote 

 place. ... It means that some roads will be abandoned, 

 entirely, as not worth the cost, and society will make a way for 

 farmers living on impossible farms to move to other lands; and 

 that there will be no 'back roads,' for they will mark an undevel- 

 oped society. It means that we shall cease the pretense to bring 

 all lands into farming, whether they are useful for farming or not; 

 and that in the back country beyond the last farms there shall be 

 trails that lead far away." 



