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Woodcraft ?o? wound; (5) treat the wound as ?ntiseptieally as it is possi'bie with the means at h?_.nd ?nd hur? to a doctor. The danger depends greatly on the amount of the poison injected, hence upon the size of the snake. It is for this reason that the big Florid? rattlesnakes which grow to six feet and over are more ?o be feared than are other poisonous snakes. Of these, ? '"? we have in our country, be- ?ides the r?ttlesnakes, the water moccasin, or cotton Water moccasin mouth, the copperhead, and the coral snake. The latter is a bright-colored .?nalre of red, yellow, andblack rings found in the South, but it is usu- ally small, and not aggressive, so that but few cases o/ poisoning are known. The other two axe common ellough, the former/rom Norfolk, Va., south, the other all over the eastern country from Texas to Massachusetts. They are usually confounded, however, with two perfecfiy harmless snake?, the' cotton mouth with the common water snake, the copperhead with the so-called spreading adder, but as their differences have to be learned from actual inspection and are very hard to express in a description which would help to idco- tify living specimens, it is wisest to keep away from all of them. See "The Poisonous Snakes of North America." ByLeonard $tejneger, publlsbz?i by Government Printing office, Washington. INSECTS AND BUTTERFLIES* Unit,? Sto, Y,s Bureau of .E?o?logy There is an advaotage in the study of insects over most other branches of nature, excepting perhaps pla?ts, in that there is plenty of material. You may have to tramp miles to see a certain bird or wild animal, but if you will sit down on the first patch of grass you are sure to see something going on in the in- sect world. Butterflies Nearly all insects go through several different stages. The young b/rd is very much' like its parent, so is the Chry?. young squirrel or a young ? or ? -- 'iti ed 0 C ? ? D. Appleton & Compa,n,v.