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overdone, that the multiplication of small 
shops is a burden to consumers and no 
source of riches to the small shop keep- 
ers. When twenty or more small shops 
divide the retail business within an area 
that could be served by one large shop 
the expense of the many shops for labor, 
delivery, horses, rent and other things 
that are in excess of what would be sufh- 
cient for the one shop must go to in- 
crease the retail prices of the meat sold. 
In other words the Secretary of Agri- 
culture would recommend the suppres- 
sion of nineteen-twentieths of the small 
butcher shops, but how is he going to 
do it? 
Is the North Shore overcrowded with 
butcher shops! In Manchester, with a 
population in summer of more than 4000 
people, there are three shops. In Bev- 
erly Farms, and adjacent territory, with 
a population in summer of 3000 or less, 
there are five shops. 
Mrs. Otis Lane. 
After a lingering illness Mrs. Otis 
Lane passed away last Sunday at her 
home on Vine street, Manchester, at the 
age of 57 years, 19 dave: 
Mrs. Lane was born Dec. 7, 1852, a 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. fe Butter- 
field, but she was later adopted by Mr. 
and "Mrs. William Hodgdon of Fall 
River. Shelived for a yvreater part of 
her lifein Lanesville. Of late years she 
has been failing in health, but only for 
the last six weeks has she been seriously 
ill. She died on Dec. 26th, from 
Bright’s disease. 
Funeral services were held Wednes- 
day and burial was at Lanesville. Rev. 
T. L. Frost officiated. 
Besides a husband she is survived by 
five children, —two daughters, Mrs. Mat- 
tie Coombs, Miss Bertha B. Lane, and 
three sons, Henry L., Ralph H. and 
Dana B. Lane. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZA 
And by sanitary and expert canning as delicious as the 
fresh cut in the summer time. 
California contributes, and 
in such an abundance as to make the prices very reasona- 
ble. 
Tops in square cans (pieces about three inches long) 
all tender and edible at 25x. per can. 
full length stalks, SOc., 35C., and 4O0c. per can. 
Large square cans, 
The 
60c. and 75c. Tops, 40. and No. 3 round cans (pieces 
for toast) at $5 per can. 
justly celebrated Oneida Community Packing, square cans, 
COBB, BATES & YERXA COMPANY, 
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ARMY OF PARASITES. 
Woods Will be Full of Them Next Summer. 
Forestry Department will Liberate 40 or 
50 Kinds. 
The woods will be full of gypsy and 
brown-tail moth parasites next summer, 
for the moth division of the state forestry 
department already has on hand at the 
experiment laboratory in Saugus between 
40 and 50 different kinds of them to be 
released during the heydays of the pests. 
The forestry department believes that 
it has solved the problem of destruction 
by parasite, and that from next summer 
the work of the moths’ natural enemies 
will do what men have been unable to 
accomplish in the work of extermination. 
Forester Frank W. Rane does not ex- 
pect the moths ever to be completely de- 
stroyed, but he does believe they will be 
reduced to a point where their damage is 
minimum. 
W. F. Fiske, who has charge of the 
laboratory at Saugus, says that of the 
twoscore ormore of parasites to be re- 
leased next summer, 10 show no prefer- 
ence between the gypsy or the brown- 
tail, devouring both with evident enjoy- 
ment. The remainder are exclusive in 
their tastes. 
It has been discovered that the cycle 
of the parasite’s activity, with one or two 
exceptions, is about 10 days. Each has 
his specialty during that time. One may 
attack the eggs, another the caterpillar 
and athird the moth itself, but no one 
bas yet been found that is available for a 
general campaign. 
One of the most ferocious of the para- 
sites now on hahd is the large predoce- 
ous beetle, which attacks the gypsy moth 
caterpillar, tearing it to pieces. 
to kill is measured only by the time at its 
disposal; and it is a particularly desirable 
parasite fora number of different rea- 
sons, notthe least of which is that the 
female raisesa family of 500 children in 
aseason. Another desirable feature of 
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the predoceous beetle is the fact that it 
lives to be 3 years old. 
There is also the monodontonerus, a 
parasite so small that individuals can hard- 
ly be seen by the naked eye. This little 
fellow is voracious out of all proportion 
to his size, however, and his particular 
fodder is the pupa of the gypsy moth. 
The managers of the Saugus labor- 
atory imported the monodontonerus from 
Europe in 1906, and the first consign- 
ment was liberated in the same year. 
Very soon the colony was lost, and 
not a trace of it was seen for three years. 
Last summer it was located, and the 
entomologists discovered that it had 
spread and had covered an area of 500 
square miles, over all which it was doing 
excellent work for the forestry depart- 
ment. 
Another of the gypsy moth parasites is 
the schedius, an immigrant from Japan 
which has a scheme of its own for work- 
ing destruction. The larva hatches and 
feeds, deyeloping the pupa stage before 
leaving the gypsy mothegg. There will 
be liberated from the Saugus laboratories 
some 2,000,000 of them. 
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A And Impr cuements 
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An addition is being built to the ser- 
Frederick R. 
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vants’ quarters on the 
Sears, jr., summer cottage, at Beverly 
Farms. Hardy & Day are the contract- 
ors. 
Treasurer Blunt of the Boston Journal, 
who is erecting a fine summer home on 
The Headlands, at Rockport, has shown 
his loyalty to the town by giving his 
plumbing contract to Thurston & Hale 
of Rockport. 
Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane and 
their little daughter have been spending 
the holidays with Mrs. Lane’s parents, 
Prof. and Mrs. Basil L. Gildersleeve, at 
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