country. The farmers could not get 

 rid of them. They sent over to Aus- 

 tralia to find some way of getting 

 rid of them. So the lady bird was 

 brought over and that was the check 

 for the cottany cushion scale. 

 ANITA GLILIANELLI, Niles School. 

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 ANIMALS AND INSECTS 



Coyotes and rabbits escape injury 

 from their enemies by hiding in the 

 deep grass where both animals being 

 of a greyish color cannot be seen 

 by their enemies and are left safe. 



Insects have different ways of es- 

 caping from thier enemies. Some of 

 them change to different forms so 

 that birds flying over them do not 

 meddle with them for fear of being 

 harmed. Others are very bitter to 

 the bird's taste and when they see 

 certain insects they do not dare to 

 touch them. Some insects that live 

 on trees or leaves escape from being 

 injured in sevral ways. The worm 

 straightens himself out and the bird 

 thinking it a branch leaves it alone. 

 Green insects lay themselves on 

 green leaves and cannot be noticed 

 by an enemy. A brown insect places 

 himself on a brown leaf and the bird 

 does not notice him. 

 ALLIE BERTOLOZZI, Niles School. 

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 ANIMAL CHECKS 



We read in books or we learn from 

 observation that every animal has its 

 check in life. From the highest ani- 

 mal on the globe, man, to some of 

 the smallest living creatures, insects, 

 we find that there is always some- 

 thing to hinder them in their pro- 

 gress in life. Insects check other in- 

 sects, birds check other birds and so 

 it goes on. The chicken devours an 

 insect; the coyote devours a chick- 

 en; the mountain lion devours the 

 coyote. Man kills the lion, and man 

 is checked in his life by disease and 

 many other things. It is observed 

 and known that death has a check 

 on all animals. 



It was not very long ago that 

 parts of California were troubled by 

 the rabbit pest. Rabbits were every 

 where, there was nothing to check 

 them and they destroyed many ag- 

 ricultural crops. The government 

 took the bounty off the coyote and 

 the result was surprising. The rab- 

 bits which were known to multiply 

 tremendously, began to diminish 

 Rabbits did not trouble the inhabi- 

 tants again. 



Take another illustration. Not very 

 long ago, an American brought about 



a dozen lemon trees from Australia. 

 These trees had an insect, the cot- 

 tony cushion scale, which hindered 

 the life of the tree. It was not very 

 long, before these insects were on 

 most every orange tree in California. 

 Californians were puzzled. They 

 knew that in Australia, where the 

 cottony cushion scale lived, they 

 had a very prosperous business in 

 every respect. 



Some men were sent over by the 

 United States government to find if 

 they could, a check to the growth of 

 the cottony cushion scales. They 

 came back, bringing with them some 

 lady birds, which they put on the or- 

 ange trees. The result was magnifi- 

 cient; the pests were checked by the 

 lady bird and California became 

 one of the leading orange sections 

 of the world. 



Every animal has its check in life 

 and to make agriculutre a profitable 

 business ,you should know all the an- 

 imal checks. 

 EDWARD ELLSWORTH, 



Niles School. 



TO TEACHERS: Lessons in agri- 

 culture are running in the Town and 

 Country Journal, published at 1005 

 Market street, San Francisco 



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