SPRING NUMBER 1a 
A “BAT” FOR A “RACET WILD ANIMAL” 
The following, contributed by a farmer on the shores of Lake 
Okeechobee, may prove valuable to those similarly afflicted: 
“dear sir, 
- Please Regard Rabbits & Rats Poisoning How is To Best 
Uising Bats (baits) For This Racet Wild Animal Eated Ali 
Plant Up and Digging All Seed Out Peanuts Corn Broom Corn 
Just Think Digging Out Corn Plant From Two To Three Weeks 
Old. * * *K * ok ‘ 
Since This Rats Eated Seed Bad I Go Over A Bout 30 Acre 
Two Week Head Before Plant Corn With Poison Bats Paris 
Grien and Arsenata Of Lead Arsenic Zing Together Corn Meal 
And Indian Pomckins Coked And-Hed One Pound Sugar & One 
Quart Surp To One Peck Poison Bats Distributed Two Time A 
Week And I Did Seved 20 Acre Corn. * * * 
Yours Veriy Truly, 
WANTED—To exchange insects of Michigan, preferably Lepi- 
doptera. for insects from Florida. W. C. Platt, 625 Wallace 
Ave., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
STRATEGUS WANTED—Am making a special study of this genus, 
of the Scarabeidae, and should be very glad to receive Florida 
specimens, especially of the rarer specie. Will exchange or pay 
cash. Address W. Knaus, McPherson, Kansas. 
Insects are eminently instructive, though their automatic be- 
havior is often so remarkably successful as to appear rational, 
instead of purely instinctive.—Falson. 
Perhaps, after all, it was just a happy thought that prompted 
the wasp to grab a pebble in its jaws and with it tamp the 
earth over its burrow.—kE. W. B. 
