398 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [Nov., '09 



bake pastry and cakes, can fruit and make jelly all day with wide 

 open doors and windows and not a fly enters. Our kitchen has two 

 windows, one door opening onto a small porch and one door into 

 an inner room. Running over the porch and trained over the two 

 windows of the kitchen are thrifty, common hop vines. They 

 start early in the spring and die down in the late fall. We have 

 believed they gave us freedom from flies but had no absolute proof. 

 Last summer the removal of the vines, temporarily, in order to white- 

 wash the building, gave us what we regard as a demonstration. It 

 was in August. The vines were carefully laid down on the ground 

 while the whitewashing was done, but they had scarcely been so 

 taken from the windows when flies began coming into the room. 

 During the two or three days that the hop vines were down the 

 flies came in so badly we shut our windows. As soon as the work 

 was done we put up the vines as well as possible into their accustomed 

 places, drove out the unwelcome flies, and as a rain came and fresh- 

 ened the vines we again enjoyed freedom from flies. I might say 

 that so slight attention, none in fact, is paid to fly sanitation here 

 that in the summer it requires much grace to force ourselves to enter 

 the average native house. 



This quality of the hop vine may be entirely familiar to you, but 

 as I said above, it has never come to my notice in "The Christian Ad- 

 vocate" articles nor indeed elsewhere. And it is so simple and 

 possible that it seems worth while. 



Very truly yours, 



DORA DAVIS. 



Lovetch, Bulgaria, May 4-17, 1909. 



From The Christian Advocate. 



NEWSPAPER ENTOMOLOGY. 



HER REWARD. Professor (to his aged cook) : "You have now been 

 twenty-five years in my service, Regina. As a reward for your fidelity 

 I have determined to name the bug I recently discovered after you." 

 Fliegcnde Blaetter. 



The Hessian fly is a German product which was conceived in iniquity 

 and born in sauerkraut. It is a long, rangy flea with a bite like a steel 

 trap, and it lays a pale blue, oblong egg at the rate of 30,000 an hour. 

 The Hessian fly will eat anything from decayed custard pie to a glass 

 ink well, but its favorite dish is the double neck on a fat gent. This 

 bird can perform a two-step on sticky fly paper without crooking its 

 toes, and is proof against rough on rats, the daisy fly killer and a 

 strychnine hypodermic. No Hessian fly was ever known to die of 

 anything but old age, which accounts for the color of its whiskers. 

 If it ever fastens upon your jowl, it will stay until removed by the 

 undertaker. Manchester Press. 



