previously recommended, for the insect may be safely "tided over” 
during that time by continued generation within the stored crops, 
or in the housewife’s bag of beans carefully laid aside and protected 
in some bye and forgotton drawer. 
The Tracy House. - Perhaps in no way could as much be 
accomplished toward arresting the spread of this insect, as in the 
use, by all extensive bean-growers, of the ‘‘Tracy house,” or ‘‘bug- 
house,” which, according to Professor A. J. Cook, was largely used 
bv t-lie pea-growers of Northern New York for the arrest of the 
ravages of the pea weevil, when not long ago the pea interest was 
thteatened with destruction. Professor Cook has given the follow- 
ing description of the house and the manner in which the Bisulfide 
of Carbon is used in it, in Bulletin No. 58, Michigan Agricultural 
Experiment Station : 
•"The house is made air-tight ; even the door is made very close- 
fitting ; and is made still closer by pasting paper over the edges 
upon closing it, after filling the house with sacks of peas. An air- 
tight flue at one end opens at the very top into the building, and at 
the bottom out of doors. A sort of chute with an adjustable air- 
tight valve is arranged for the turning in of the liquid. The liquid 
is turned in till the odor shows that the vapor is pouring out at the 
bottom of the flue. Then, of course, the air has been all forced out 
by the vapor when the valve is closed. It is left closed for three 
days; then the doors are opened that the vapor may escape, when 
all the weevils will be dead.” 
Prof. M. V. Slingerland in Insect Life , vol. 5, page 87, regarding 
Iiean Weevil, says : 
Bisulfide of Carbon destroys all stages, Insect Eggs, Larvae 
of all sizes, Pupae and all adults. 
CHICKEN LICE. 
Editor Dixie Milter : 
If you would please make known my experience with the chicken 
lice in your valuable paper, it would help some of your readers. I 
live on high, sandy land, and have had always 20 to 50 chickens. 
Last fall and winter lice became so numerous that we tried in succes- 
sion kerosene, quick lime, hot water, insect powder, tar, salt in every 
form, etc , with no visible benefit. I read several articles on Bi- 
sulfide of Carbon, but no drug store would keep the cheap kind 
for this purpose. 
Meanwhile I concluded to send on to the manufacturer, E. R. 
Taylor who sent me some, and I tried it in small 
