INCREASING DEMAND FOR COCOONS. 



The Butterfly Farmer is pleased to report an unprecedented demand for 

 cocoons this winter. We have advocated that the prices of live puaee of Lepidop- 

 tera should be reduced and our subscribers have tried the experiment with good 

 success. Far more orders have been received than we have known how to 

 fill and these orders have come from all parts of America and Europe. The 

 ease and safety with which cocoons may be shipped, the untiring pleasure of 

 watching the adults emerge and develop their wings, and the fact that they 

 yield perfect cabinet specimens will always render the cocoon a valuable product 

 of the butterfly farm. If prices are reasonable an almost unlimited supply of 

 live pupae can be sold each year, especially of species which hibernate in the 

 pupal state. We would esteem it a favor if all correspondents would notify us 

 of the probable number of each kind of pupae which they can furnish next winter. 



TROUBLES OF EARLY COLLECTORS. 

 By Dr. Richard E. Kunze, Phoenix, Arizona. 



"I have looked over your Farmer and notice many very interesting items; 

 likewise read the names of some old friends of mine from the East and West, 

 and their pleasing comments on your good work in behalf of Entomology. I, 

 too, trust that you will make many converts to this natural science. The Amer- 

 ican public on this point needs to be more thoroughly educated. 



"For instance, when the late Dr. Hulst of Brooklyn, twenty-six years ago 

 came to Prescott, Arizona, to find Sphinx elsa and other varieties, he went camp- 

 ing ten miles north of Prescott on the Hassayampa river and location of the 

 old Senator gold mine. He found it impossible to get board or lodging at 

 the miners' boarding house, the only place there to be found. The miners 

 adjudged him insane, and refused him to be lodged in their company. Finally 

 he found an independent miner up on the mountain, named David Grubb, from 

 Ohio, a better read man, who took pity on the Clergyman and gave him board 

 and accommodation such as pioneer miners can provide. When I came to 

 Prescott in 1 896, I made several trips to the Senator mining camp and a few 

 times stopped with Mr. Grubb, because his one-room shanty was located on 

 the stage road between Senator and the Crown King mining camp. Mine host 

 often talked with me about Dr. Hulst. 



"Similarly, but less exasperating, was my own case, when in 1 899 or 1 900 

 I stopped in Globe, that great copper camp at the foot of the Pinal Mountains, 

 1 00 miles east of Phoenix. Until I could find a conveyance to take me up 

 to the Pinal Mountains, a distance of only fifteen miles, I passed evenings in 

 front of the gambling houses and saloon, on the long strung-out and only street, 

 beside the precipitous creek, to take a few nocturnal insects with my cyanide 

 bottle. The little bewildered tenants of those buildings discussed matters hastily 

 and thought advisable to have me arrested and examined regarding my sanity! 

 Fortunately, the electrician of that plant knew me, because he had seen me 

 doing the same thing in Phoenix previously, and nipped the scheme right in the 

 bud. Right here I would state that the only insect of importance of those moun- 

 tains was the very rare Cychrus snowii, a beetle, of which I only took six 

 specimens." 



There was never a Queen like Balkis, 



From here to the wide-world's end; 

 But Balkis talked to a butterfly 

 As you would talk to a friend. 



— Kipling. 

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