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WEEKLY PROGRAM . 'HIGHLIGHTS
Fridley, Jan. 13-11 a.in., . Har'r'y 3.
Bayle; 12.45 p.m., Poultry Talk; 6.45,
CKNX. 'bee; 7, Milt Hirth's
•Swi,ngsters; 7 0, Cocoanut Greve AM-
bassadRre. % wr
aturday, Jan. 14-12.45 p.m. OKNX
ill -Billies; 7, Wes McKnight; 7.30,
oeoanut Grove Ambassadors; 7.45,
Barn Dance.
Sunday, San. 15-11 tem'., Wingpam
'Unite& Ohurrdh ; .30. p.meHenL Sebes
Amateurs; 1.45, Triple -V Bible Class;
tri, George MoCuilag ; 7, St. Andrew's
1Chiurdz.
Monday, Jaz. 16-11 a.m., Harry J.
Boyle; 7 p.m., Kidoodlers; 7.30, Co-
coanut O•rove Ambassadors; 8, Ken-
neth Rentoui•. 1
Tuesday, Jan. 17-1 p.m.., Royal
Chefs; 7, Peg LaCenitra; 7.30, Cocoa-
nut Grove Ambassadors; 9, Listowel
es, Winghtam Hockey.
Wednesday, .Jta,n.' 18-11 a.m., Har-
ry .1. Boyle; 1, "Clippings"; 7.30 pan.,
-Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors.
Thursday, Jan. 19-1 P.m., Royal
,Chefs; 7, Jack and Loretta,
George McCullach Takes The Micro-
phone Again
George McCune/Mh, publisher of the
'Globe & Maid, Mae anntoumeed..that he
will make live radio talks, in January
and! February. Arrangements have
been made With OKNX, 'Wiwghamn, to
bieadcast Mr. McCullagh's talks loc—
ally.
The dynamic chief executive of the
'Globe & Meal anade iids) last broadcast
.tn October 2, 1937. His talk on that
date is laid to have reached • the larg-
est Ontario audience ever tented to a
tangle broadcast-
George McCullegih ,will be heard on
flour snsrcesstve Sundays, January 15,
22, 29 and February .5, at 5 p.m. His
fifth talk will be Iheamd en CKNX Fri-
day, February 10, at 8.30 p.m.
Broilers for Market
The buyer wtho can afford' luxuries
'cam usually afford to be discriminat-
ing. Broilers may be considered in
the luxury class of food products,
when properly prepared for market.
When disposing of the surplus cock-
erels as broilers it is well to bear
tits in lend and market the birds
in the moat attractive way. It pays
to please the buyer, and, when there
Is keen competition it becomes still
amore advisable.
When catering to a select private
trade it may speed up sales if the
carcass is completely dressed and put
asp in an attractive carton. When
sold drawn, the shrinkage will be
•ntbou0 40 per cent of the live weight,
and e. proportionate price must be re-
alized to pay for the loss hi weight
end extra labor. Those birds should
be selected that have made good
growth; these will be found to be
-p'um'p and well feathered:' The well
leathered birds have less pie -feathers
and consequently dress better.
Starve the birds for at least twelve
hours, but give plenty of fresh drink-
ing water before killing. Kill them
by braining and bleeding; and) drY
pick. Sometimes to save time the
semi -scald may be adv4sab1e. -In this
case bleed and thoroughly immerse
the carcase for not more than thirty
seconds in water heated, to a. teanper-
satu're of not more than 127 deg, F..
'It is important to keep the waster at
en even temperature; over -•heating
will give a skin -cooked unattractive
appearance.
Cost of, •production records at the
Dominion Experimental Station, Har-
row, show that it requires approxi-
mately five pounds of feed to raise
a broiler on range from chick to two-
Tound weight. Me total cost win
vary according to bbe number rais-
ed, price of feed, mortality, price of
cnicl., and •brooder fuel consumed, 1•t.
may be roughly estimated that the
feed cost is slightly under half the
total cost at present prices and tin-
der average condi tf ons,.
Keep Well all the time
• with rich blood and
.steady nerves by using
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D. (hases Nerve food
CONTAINS VITAMIN Bt
LOW ROUND TRIP
RAIL FARES
Follow summer to its all -year
home. Thrill to golf under blue
skies, 'relax on warm sands.
For a winter vacation or a•
longer stay, there is never a
dull moment. And living costs
are very. moderate:
Choose your own route: Fares
apply direct or via the Catzadian
Rockies, Vancouver and Vic.
totia to San Francisco in one
or both directions:
FULL INFORMATION
AS TO ROUND TRIP
• STANDARD FARE
• TOURIST FARE
• COACH FARE
On Applkaitio'n to ;MY Asn'
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- Callainttilar, Ontaa'Yo, Is meow the suer
mer ea'!operoa de of America. From
early monmdnag' till long after dark,
cars roll through the small village at
the rate ' ,f one ..a ttninute, bearing
eager eigih seers 'bound for the world's
wonder cbildmen. The cavalcade) rune
bees $,000 peeede .on an^ average'- week
day, ' and on ••week -ends, upward of
8,600e-70 per cent—from the United
States.
Evidennee of the Quints' economic.
influence 1 seen on every Ontario
highway leading to the north coun-
try.
ouptryr. Aloconmoodation is often it a
premium in towns 150 miles away,
and even the lordly Royal York in
Toronto, the largest ,hotel in the Brr'-
Ush Empire, and the equally regal
Chateau Laurier in Ottawa feel the
quickendnrg pull of the Quints. Ac-
cording to the conservative reckon-
ing of tibe Dominion Government's
Travel Bureau, the five tittle charm-
ers attract between 20 and 25 million
dollars of U. • S. tourist money yearly,
and Thence are one of Canada's most
important businesses.
'Callavd+enr was an all but abandon/•
ed lumber town at thlr time of 'the
Quintupletst birth, Pour years ago.
Thera was a small cauntay' hate', a
general stare, a garage or two, and a
•bcattberting of houses. Four of the
town's lumber milds had burned down;
the remaining one was closed. In the
surrounding township 800 people were
on relief;. and taxes were thousands
of dollars in arrears.
Today taxes are paid up aandi the
only person on relief are those un;
employed because of age or sdekpess.
°attenndee's Motels now have accom-
modations for 1,500. Atlong the once
meaty highway from North Bay,
m'one than four miles of tourists cab-
in's have sprung up... Transeontawen-
tal express trains now stop, without
flagging, at the station which has re-
placed the former box oar. A parcel
of land that -changed hands in:' 1933
at $290 is now quoted at $5;000.
Compared whit the money the Qui a
tuplets have made for others--thotel
keepers, merchants, transportation
companies' --their Own earnings seem
modest. Officially, their gross take
has so far been over $750,000. Of
this sum, $600,000 is invested in Pro-
viocial and Dominion Bonds: They
pay their own living expenses, con-
tribute $300 a month to the support
of their permits, and are sending
'three of their brothers and sisters to
school.
Not including the lawyers retained
from time to time to prevent the un-
authorized use of their -names, there
are 14 people on their payroll: two
nurses, three policemen, two maids, a
I teacher, a housekeeper and a cook;
the kindly Dr. Defoe, whose monthly
fee remains, at his own Insistence,
$200; the Quints' businesk manager,
the eecretary-treasurer of the Board
of Guardians, and Dr. Dafoe's secre-
tary. The total costs of caring for
the live girls^ are running about $2,000
in, excess of the $20,000 income from
their investments
T+h'eir largest source of revenue has
been the novice. Their first picture,
"The Oonntry Doctor," brought them
$50,000, and the same company has
paid $250,000 for rights to make three
more pictures. They receive $10,000
a year from new -reel rights, and
many thousands from he 'use of still
pictures in magazines and newspa-
pers in every country in the world.
Another big source of revenue has
been advertising. The five sisters
have endorsed corn syrup, cod liver
oil, a disinfectant, diapers, milk pro-
ducts, toys .,and children's clothes.
One contract in the soap and dentri-
flee field will bring them $55,000 ov-
er a three-year period, and their pub-
lic approval of a well known, break-
fast food made them $25,000. Their
advertising revenues are much less
than theymight have been had .not
their guardians steadfastly refused to
endorse any product Dot actually us-
ed' by the children.
The Quiets' flnantces have caused
dramatic conflicts between those in-
terested in their w'eifare and, tihaose.
anxious to explioit their earning pow-
ers. Three days after the babies were
born tire bewildered father signed a
contract with one Ivan, Spear to per-
mit their exhdbition at the Chicago
World's Fair. This amazing contract
had no time Limit and included every
conceivab'l'e right of exploitation. But
it did have a provision that the babies
couldnot be moved without the con-
sent of Dr. Dafoe.
A stoma of disapproval broke round
Dionnae's head as Soon as these terms
were known. Falling back on the
saving clause, he repudiated the
agreement. Spear sued all those con-
nected witib the incident for $1,000,-
000, but the snit was dismissed in
Federal District Court. To protect
the babies and Papa Dionne himself
from the threat of equally dangerous
commitments, Dr. Dafoe, with the
help of other, induced D%n,ne and
.his wife to agree to a temporary
guardianship wihidh removed the chil-
dren entirely from their parents' con-
trol
Prom that time on a feud raged be-
tween the successive boards of guar-
dians and num.erqus individuals who
have hoped to secure the Quanta'
'earnings for themselves. As a result
the Provincial Government has re-
placed the temporary guardianathip
with a permanesiit one making the five
children wards of the King until their
18th birthday.
The feud ''ed also to two well-plan-
ned attempts to kidnap the children
and .remove them from the jurisdic-
tion of the Ontario courts. Today
their haealth end safety make it nec-
essary for them to live in what is
virtually a comeentration camp—
guarded by speetaci palace and a
'heavy wire fence.
Perhaps the most curious .of the
'battles to profit tram the Quints was
the prolonged legal struggle between
two manufacturers of corn' syrup. The
first meal served, the infants was a
7-20 mixture of cow's milk and water
with a ;Pave drops ilf rum and corn
spree. When the news was made
known, the president of the St. Later -
'em° Starch Company in Canada ship-
ped a case of their Beehive Syrup' to
Callander. He also sent a cheque to
G
which 'the' weps neo string* attae
Then advertisents appeared
claiming that Beehive Cora Syrup
had 'bees the first food to pass the
babies' lips, BeehiStes Sales immedi-
ately skyrocketed,
The .Cahade Stanch ,Oomtpany, whose
Crown Bnantit Syrup bad 'pltevdously
been the best seller, quickly sued the
Behave people for $150,000 damages.
Their contention was that there had
been a can of Crown Syrup In the
Dionne house during the 9ivefolda birth
—and toot • Beehive. The case wound
through .the counts for many Months
before judgment was given ,to the -le -
pendant, Beehive, on the evidence of
the nurse wise )rad served the meal.
The Quintuplets' $600,000 nest egg
would be eonsider bly 'larger but for
the borrow their guardians, and Cana-
dians generally, have of what they
call "vulgar ballyhoo." T+hds' aattitude
explains the guardians' insistence on
adtvertesdng dignity and their refusal
to permit tAvetr charges to enter into
the farcical game of endorsements as
played on this side of the 'Mine..
Around CaIlendder there are none of
the more gaudy neandfestetions of
showmanship sometimes found in this
country. Arriving deem, one . feels
that Ontario is prepared to admit the
eels/team-of the Quintuplets, but noth-
ing more. NA lamge billboard or Neon
sign proclaims their nearness. In-
eGead, there is a neat roadside route
marker which points east' and states
simply: "The Dionne Quintuplets."
Obvtiouniyt there ,is an effort to pre-
serve an atmosphere laws reminiscent
of the Midway—an effort to give the
little girls eveaw possible opportunity
to ;live normal lives'. The hordes who
travel hunadr+eds of miles for a brie!
glimpse • at them through a wire
screenare not eve •charged' an ad-
m6ms1oe fee. 'But the 'crowds are
gaily oblivious of this restraint. These
noisty, friendly t'housan'ds with their
bolidap air, eating shot dogs and buy-
ing the unknagfnative sou/entirs in
the booths (Papa Dionne is believed
to be clearing well over $25,000 a year
from 'his stand alone), are out to en-
joy themselves, and nothing on earth
eould dampen their enthusiasm.
Twi.'oe a days the wai't'ing crowds in
C•ad'Iander form a long queue, four
abreast. Slowly they move toward
the Quints' place of exhibition which
accommodates about 200 persons at a
time. They walk through a covered
passageway ' from -which they can see,
but cannot be "seem by, the ch'ildr'en
at play. The girls' exuberant good
sspd'rdts, their charm and flawless
grooming, their rollicking enjoyment
of life, give one an increased respect
far Dr. Defoe and his '. associates;
their has been a really magnificent
achievement.
But one wonders chow long the in-
numerable compromisaes can work.
The public' wants to see the children
and will insist, in increasing numbers,
on seeing them as long as there is
the .remotest chance of doing so. It
appears that 'eventually either the
-children and the family will have to
be placed in some kind of national
preserve, entirely isolated from, the
public, or the Quintuplets will have
to be accepted for what they are — a
five -girl amusement industry whose
lives will consist of an alteinate rou-
tine of public appearances and ex-
pensively bought privacy.
DR.
PAUL
BARTSCH
One of the the interesting things
about this business of writing for a
magazine is that yogi never know
where you may stumble onto a real
story, says Carroll P. Streeter in
"The Farmer's Wife." Who would
suppose for instance, that the world's
foremost expert on snails' was carry-
ing around -with him a truly amazing
story of how millions of human lives
have been saved' by a chance discov-
ery whieth seemed of no value at the
time? Or another story, never print-
ed anywhere before, of how 'common
garden slugs staved untold numbers
of soldiers during the World War?
Now, twenty years afterward; the
story is just coming to light.
Well, there is such a man, with
such a story, and I spent two of the
most interesting hours I can reinem-
ber in visiting with him not long ago.
He is Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of
mollusks in the Smithonian Institu-
tion, or National Museum, in Wash-
ington, D. C.
1'11 admit that I wouldn't know
more than a few mollusks if I met
them on the street. But ,mollusks, it
seems, include subh creatures as
snails, oysters and even the giant
octopus of the sea.
Dr. Bartsch looks like a man who
would have an interesting story. He
is tall and angular, with a keen eye;
you sense at once that he is a rest-
less, driving type of Haan, intent en
what lie is doing and eager to he get-
ting on with It However, you would
not suspect that this scientist, hidden,
in a eornaer of a ;huge building, amid
cases which contain nearly four mil-
lion shells of sea and land creatures,
ever had anything to dd with win-
ning the war for the Allies and set-
ing soldiers' lives. Yet he had much
to do 'with it.
The story goes back to the days
when the Germans first sprung the
surprise of mustard gas. It was ab-
solutely devastating because it was
odorless and soldiers were breathing
it before they had warning to get
their gas masks on. The gas com-
bines chemically with the moisture in
the lungs to form hydrochloric acid.
The acid eats the membranes and,
causes pneunnlonia, among other,
things
The problem was to find some
means of detecting the firet traces of
the gas, so the men could get their
musks on in time. Chemical -warfare
officers in all of the Allied armies,
including ours, were •fraatioally east-
ing etbout for an 'answer to the prob-
lem. One of them, a friend of Dr.
Bartsdh, called on afar' to ask where
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Result of Acid 'J1gO oit
"Before tald1ng 1 rtlstoa%t! a Worn
writes, "I bad very OS,4 e fizzy' spalls
and foot lima:ea. bad spells Of alchtLita
digestion, earn I Woolf no n'.ereous' at
times that the lea thing would Mk'
set me. I was about three years in
that condition. .
• "I could eiof tell you In words haw
happy and glad I altr td clay that I
gave Krueehen Salts a tial. I have
now taken them For S8 Month I
would not ,miss them ,one day. 'They
are a great ihelp'to anyone who suf-
fers as I did. I feel • in.better health
today, time I have for years. After
taking Kruschen for three weeks
dizzy -faints and hot flushes left me.
I now feel so bright and. /*eerie!.
Kruseben Staits assist to keepyou fit
and fine." --(Mrs;)
Kruschen Salts is an excellent re-•
cipe for maintaining a condition of
internal cleanliness. The numerous
sante in Krusehen stimulate your in-
ternal
nternal organs to smooth, regular ac-
tion. Your .inside is thus kept clear
•of those impurities which, • wham al-
lowed to accumulate, lower the whole
tone of the system.
he eould find. a Mexican 'hairless dog.
He shad no idea whether tire dog
would be a gas detector, but a Mexi-
can hairless was different than any
other kind of dog, and the army was
trying everything.
The dog experiment was a failure,
but Dr. Bartsch was still ta'n'king
about it next day whn suddenly an'
,idea hit him.
"By Jingo!"- excl'aim'ed he. "Why
wouldn't my snails be the very thing?
They have ,moist•t kine. They are
covered with m ' e which will
combine with the They should
the fifty timesas sensitive to it as a
man is."
Next morning bright and early Dr.
Bartsch turned his whole staff loose
to go out and hunt for common gar-
den slugs, which are eine kind of snail
As soon as :the first ones were brought
in th'e took them to the Chemical War-
fare Service- where it was found that
they were sensitive to the tiniest
whiff of mustard gas. Moreover, he
could use the same slugs as many as
twenty times, for being slow crea-
tures they could quit breathing • until
they got into the fresh air again.
The upshot was that the , Allied
armies were soon ca/eying slugs to
the front in little wire cages. 'Men -
ever the slugs would start to pour
out amilky, protective secretion the
sirens would be sounded and soldiers
would hurriedly don masks. How many
thousands of men owe their lives to
this quiet scientist woo studies snail
no one can estimate.
Even stranger is another story.
Forty years ago, not long after gra-
duating from the University of Iowa,
when he had only well begun his stu-
dy of mollusks, Dr. Bartsch made a
chance discovery one day within a
few miles of Washington. The snails
in the Potomae riverktiifered . from
those in the side stream flowing into
the river. .,
Hamm . that was strange,
he thought, but even more curious,
the two kinds were often found with-
in four or five yards of each other yet
never intermingled. Right at the
niouth of each tributary stream was
some mysterious, unseen barrier.
With a scientist's curiosity Bartsch
puzzled over tibis for some time. Not
that it mattered, probably, but he
couldn't be comfortable until he knew
the explanation. Finally he got the
right (hunch. The water in, the Poto-
mac, he found, was slightly alkaline,
since part of the way it Sowed over
a limestone bed.. That•in the smaller
streams, Which flowed out of the
wooded' valley, was slightly acid. The
snails in the river could not live in
the acid water, nor could those in
the smaller streams live in the alka-
line water.
Weil, that was an interesting but
apparently useless fact and young
Bartsch stored it in I he back of his
head and went on about other thanes.
(In his later travels about the world
he was to find still more striking evi-
dence that some kinds of snails can
live only in very special envireu-
names, He was to learn, for example,
that same of the tree snails live only
in cerfain valleys of the Hawaiian' is-
lands. And he was to discover that
erne species of snails exists nowhere
else in the world than on a single
patch of soil six yards wide and twen-
ty yards long on one tiny island in
the Caribbean Sea). '
Meanwihile over on the other side
of the world, chiefly in .lapari and
China, two hundred million people
were suffering from a strange disease
which doctors call schistosomiasis. It
is caused by a tiny fluke which swims
in the blood stream.
The sick could be eared by a doc-
tor, it is true, but few could have a
eoctor. And anyway the dish came
back as sera. as you waded into the
fields again. Millions of people deed
and many more minions became weak
and sick.
kInally, some brilliant Japanese
doctor made the important disoovery
that during the early part • of the•
fluke's life it had to live in a snail.
Passing out df the snail it swims
about in the rice ponds and burrows
into the bare legs of the rice wor
ers, getting into the blood stream.
Evidently, tben, you could suddenly
rid the country of the disease if you
could just get rid of the snails for
then the flukes would goon die out.
Hearing of this, Dr. Bartsch recall-
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aMeent to an enc 'lea. Vane
many ateee the alaMaCe. to altr0� ...
exempt might awe -been ruittimfzer . ern
prevented lee ajmrple . preeavt•igna r
, One precautnloRs is not tie pat wet or
*manned bay *barna, intra to poli
hay in barns that Uwe leaky roofs.
It is alto risky to snwke in Or Wetted
these tome's.` sura a,>d; rto ele�e-
tri equ4pmgle t, i't is d igerous mo use
fuses of too great anlpema�ge aThr no
atmbiele should Ire used in glace of ;a
fuse. Gare should be taken .to see
tat lightning• rode remain 'PrePerly
grounded, and defective electrical wir-
ing should be repaired pz'Mmptiy.
The Use of kerosene or gasoline to
kindle fires ' or quiclten a slow fire
,has been zesponsable not only for
many fire but also for many deaths
on farms and just ,because there bas
never been as fore on the farm, it is
(langerous to neglect precautions un-
der the 'belief that the ;build -lege will
never take fl 'e. Insurance gives an
unwarranted -sense of security, but in-
surance cannot give compensation' for
all the financial losses and it cannot
replace loss of life. Extreme care
shonkl always be taken in handling
and) using gtasol ente. They gasoline con-
t .'mem »'tootle, be +tightlclosed, paint-
ed a bright 'red, and labelled "gaso-
line."
ed his observation along the Potomac
pof many years before. Promptly he
wrote to some Japanese scdeStists he
knew.
"Is the water in your fields alka-
line or acid?" he asked. 'They didn't
know but went out to find out.
"Acidic," came the reply, weeks lat-
er.
"Your problem da simple," Bartsch
shot back. "Dump some ground time -
.stone into your rice ponds to make
them alkaline and your snails can't
Iive-"
They did it, and the scourge of
sobistosomiasis which has plagued
the Orient for centuries, was largely
wiped out of Japani "'China has made
but little use of .this, preventive be-
cause there is so little means of get-
ting information abroad in that vast
land. Two million Chinese could be
saved from death every year, Dr:
Bartsch 'estimates, if tbis simple prac-
tice were followed,. - -
' And so again a `'bit of "worthless"
research which seemed of no possible
value to anybody—in this instance a
curious fact about snails-Lturned out
to be a great moment to the human
race.
No wonder Dr. Bartsch has thought
it worthwhile to sail and tramp all
over the world just to study the bum-
ble mollusk, which first interested
(him when he was a student in toe'
University of Iowa. His search has
taken him to the Phillippines, the
Malay peninsula, the Red Sea, Africa,
the Mediterranean Sea, the Carrib-
bea.n Sea and South America, in ad-
dition to all parts of the interior and
the coasts of our own country. He has
found mollusks -living all the way
from the tops of giant trees in the
Philippines to the bottom of the
Puerto Rican Deep—the deepest spot
in the Atlantic Ocean', five -and a half
miles down.
"Ever hunt snails in a cannibal
country?" I asked 'him.
"Oh yes," he said casually. "Quite
a number of times."
His own adventures he regards as
of little interest, but by persistent
questioning 1 found that his travels
had included jaunts among the head
hunters of the Philippines and among
the wild men of Borneo. In some of
these South Sea islands blood feuds
'have kept the tribes so separate that
as many as seven distinct languages
are spoken on one island. •
Probably Dr. Bartsch has done as
much work among primitive peoples
as any man in this country. He has
come to adenire them very much. "In
fact," be told me, "I'd rather work
among primitives than among any
people on earth.
"U•dually," he went on, "there was
little danger if you respected the
thousehold gods of the wild man. Be-
sides, I had the added .protection of
being considered mentally// queer.
They thought that any; than who
would offer to pay them to help ga-
ther snails must be a bit `touched.'
To them by the gods, 1 was a person
apart, that meant that Ti had been
visited and not to be tampered with,
1 t%as 'taboo',"
That was the way Dr. Bartsch felt
about it, but his escorts ,on these
trips were. not so sere. The captain
et the ship whichwas' taking him on
a cruise along the coast of Mindanao
island, in the Philippines, was sure
that every time the good doctor pad-
dled his canoe up a creek he would
never be seen again.
On one trip back into the primeval
forests the commanding officer of the
island insisted on sending a cavalry
escort Wong. Orders were that wbee-
ever Bartsch dismounted to hunt for
his snails a dozen troopers were to
dismount With him and another doz-
en were to keep a sharp lookout pn
the horizon. The scene looked p eee-
ful enough—"like a gorgeous -silent
cathedral," as 'he described it to me
—but before the party got back the
comanan,ding officer had been shot at,
and a bolo knife had whizzed out of
nowhere to lodge in the gunstock of
me of the soldiers. -
' n•fortunately," Dr. Bartsch addei.
"I was unable to visit a neighboring
island because we had just lost 'a
botanist to the natives there."
Yes, there has been plenty of ri's'k,
but the search for molius'es and the
study of them has been fas'cinatirig.
It has been useful, too. Mollusks are
important animals. From them we
get diseases, for many kinds of flukes'
that attack man and his livestock are
harbored by snails. But, on the other
side of the ledger, mollusks also fur -
nigh us with food, dyes, buttons, um-
brella handles and many other things.
Their fossil remains tell us much a-
bout the history of the earth. By ex-
amining the snail shells brought up
with mud and rock by well drillers,
scientists call tell which strata of
rock are likely to produce water and
oil.
Not only that, but-, snails are esliee.
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ialiy useful for experiments in animal
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bas a whole roomful of snails in cag-
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canrying on such inheritance nIndies
now'. He has whole colonies of them
is cages int tthe waters of the F coli it
Heys and the Potomac river. It ilk
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