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Rh The Tick Was the First Insect Disease-Carrier to be Caught

RSENIC treatment and starvation are gradually destroying the fever-tick which has been such a cattle-pest in the southern states.

The tick, however, has served a useful purpose. When the Bureau of Animal Industry, of the Department of Agriculture, discovered that this little insect carried disease germs from one animal to another, it was the first step which led to our preventive sanitation, which is putting an end to mosquitoes, house flies, rat-fleas and other disease -carrying parasitic insects.

Wrapping Taffy by Machine at the Summer Resorts

OW many times at the beaches or other summer resorts have you seen girls, and even men, wrapping the famous salt water taffy, kisses, chocolates and other candies? But times have changed, and munitions are more important than candies. Our manpower and woman- power must be conserved. The me- chanical candy wrapper shown in the ac- companying illustration offers one method of conserving our resources in this direc- tion. It is electrically driven and con- sists of a small vertical stand having a cylindrical drum at its center, in which is placed a small toothed gear device which moves up and down and wraps the waxed paper around the pieces o candy. At each upward movement, the paper is inserted between two adjacent pieces of candy, and on the downward m o a- e - ment one piece if wrapped up and the ends twisted as shown. The attend- ant has only to feed the machine, which will wrap as many as one hundred pieces a minute. The use of the machine the handling.

Chicago Elks Install a Bronze Memorial Book

HE magnificent bronze memorial book shown in the picture was recently completed by Mr. Robert C. Lafferty for the Chicago Lodge of Elks, No. 4. It stands five feet high and the fourteen pages of it will give space for twenty-one hundred names. The leaves can be taken out and placed in a vault.

Formerly the custom prevailed of erecting tablets and slabs to commemorate events and persons of importance. This proved too cumbersome and will now be superseded by the memorial bpok shown in our picture.