Nature Study at the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural College. 



BY GLENN H. CAMPBELL, STORRS, CONNEC- 

 TICUT. 



The process of farming, or of learn- 

 ing to farm through work at an agricul- 

 tural college, is more or less a study of 

 nature. Practically all agricultural 



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partment, to determine, if possible, how 

 cattle lice live and develop. 



His method of procedure is as fol- 

 lows : He selects a calf that has been 

 removed from its mother before there 

 is possible chance for lice to have been 

 transmitted to it. The calf is isolated 

 in a clean, lice-free pen. 



STUnVING INSECTS ON A CALF. 



work is based upon nature's laws, and 

 our experiment stations exist to a large 

 extent simply for the sake of discover- 

 ing these laws and the best methods of 

 applying them. One interesting study 

 recently made at the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural College was made by Profes- 

 sor Lamson. of the Entomoloev De- 



A white patch is selected on the shoul- 

 der and fifteen of a certain species of the 

 parasite are released. They immediately 

 iDcgin their operations of eating, grow- 

 ing and reproducing. After a few days 

 careful inspection will show that the 

 lice have deposited eggs. These are 

 carefully watched mitil they hatch. A 



