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instance, of such injurious insects 

 as the cotton boU weevils and 

 worms, caterpillars, errasshop- 

 pers, flies and mosquitoes. Other 

 insects, lice, ticks, bedbugs, spi- 



rigid enforcement of modern san- 

 itary measures ; but the fly pest is. 

 still awaiting a more radical eras- 

 ure from its existence. The trou- 

 ble is, these pests, besides being^ 



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Bat Roost Tower Esected at Mitchell's Lake by Dr. Chas. R. A. Campbell 

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ders, scorpions, etc. — are more or 

 less amenable to destruction by 

 our modern methods, and also the 

 mosquito pest can and has been 

 eliminated to a certain degree by 



constantly reproduced during: 

 their breeding seasons from those 

 surviving, cannot easily be 

 reached beyond the boundary line 

 of inhabited places, and they con- 



