Popular Science MofifJ/lif 

 The Tick Was the First Insect 

 Disease-Carrier to be Caught 



ARSENIC treatment and starvation 

 . are gradually destroying the fever- 

 tick which has been such a cattle-pest in 

 the southern states. 



The tick, however, has served a useful 

 purpose. When the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, discovered that this little insect 

 carried disease germs from one animal to 

 another, it was the first step which led to 

 our preventive sanitation, which is 

 putting an end to mosquitoes, house flies, 

 rat-fleas and other disease -carrying 

 parasitic insects. 



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Wrapping Taffy by Machine at 

 the Summer Resorts 



HOW many times at the beaches or 

 other summer resorts have you seen 

 girls, and even men, wrapping the famous 

 "alt water taffy, kisses, chocolates and 

 other candies? But times have changed, 

 and munitions are more important than 

 candies. Our manpower and woman- 

 power must be conserved. The me- 

 chanical candy wrapper shown in the ac- 

 companying illustration offers one method 

 of conserving our resources in this direc- 

 tion. It is electrically driven and con- 

 sists of a small vertical stand having a 

 cylindrical drum at its center, in which 

 is placed a small toothed gear 

 device which moves up and 

 down and wraps the waxed 

 paper around the pieces o 

 candy. At each upward 

 movement, the paper 

 is inserted between 

 two adjacent pieces 

 of candy, and on the 

 downward m o a- e - 

 ment one piece if 

 wrapped up and the 

 ends twisted as 

 shown. The attend- 

 ant has only to feed 

 the machine, which 

 will wrap as many 

 as one hundred 

 pieces a minute. The 

 use of the machine 



^l^^'J^Y^^ '^''''^ ""^ This little machine w 



the handling. quickly than you can 



Q) Underwood and Underwood 



A iinique memorial belonging to the Elks. 

 It is a great bronze book five feet high 



Chicago Elks Install a Bronze 

 Memorial Book 



THE magnificent bronze 

 memorial book shown in 

 the picture w^as recently com- 

 pleted by Mr. Robert C. 

 Lafferty for the Chicago 

 Lodge of Elks, No. 4. It 

 stands five feet high and 

 the fourteen pages of it 

 will give space for 

 twenty-one hundred 

 names. The leaves 

 can be taken out and 

 placed in a vault. 



Formerly the cus- 

 tom prevailed of 

 erecting tablets and 

 slabs to commemo- 

 rate events and per- 

 sons of importance. 

 This proved too 

 cumbersome and will 

 now be superseded 

 by the memorial 

 raps candy more ^pok shown in our 



count the output picture. 



