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returned home, because he had a discovery to report 

 and the bill-bugs in the stubble to prove it. 



Did you ever discover anything, and do you re- 

 member how good you felt about it ? Here in these 

 innocent-looking corn stubble was the winter home 

 of the corn bill-bug. There the little insects slept 

 throughout the long winter when the ground of the 



FIG. 16. "Johnny, that cold-frame back of the chicken-coop I give 

 you for an insect breeding-cage." 



stubble-field was frozen and icicles hung from the 

 eaves. 



When he came home and showed them what he 

 had found, they all became very much interested. 

 "Johnny/' said his father, "that cold-frame back 

 of the chicken-coop I give you for an insect breeding- 

 cage. It is my cold-frame, but you clean the glass 

 in the sashes well, and then get more stubble from 



