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Electrocution Of Caterpillars

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Day
26
Month
February
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Science is not to be held in check until all necessary things are accompllshed. Here is an easy way to rid of the caterpillars, now if the grass hoppers can be reached a greater good wlll toe accomplished : The public has c-ften been told how Edison, years beíore he wrestled successfully wlth the problem ai raaking incan descent lighting commercially possible, amused himself by deslgning an electrict rap that wrought ■havoc with cockroachea attracted by hls lunch basket. ' Cari Hering has aow improved on the idea by constructing a device for preventing caterplllars ïrom crawling up trees. Altérnate "vviTes of copper and zinc and run around the trunk of a tree at a distance of about lialf an Inch apart. The casual Caterpillar begins to mount the trunk of the tree and unlimbeis himself wlth the comidence and vigor born of an impending feast. Presently he roaches the copper wire, jjokee his nosO over it, and Iets another kink out of his backbone. Half an inch further up hia front feet strike the zinc, the current is completed and the unfortunate larva is a martyr to science.- Electrical Trade.

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Ann Arbor Courier