Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — BUTTERFLY FARM AT BEXLEY [ARTICLE]

BUTTERFLY FARM AT BEXLEY

Britlaher Raises All Kinds of Moths, Which He Sells to Naturalist* and Museums, - ' •' London. An article which appeared recently describing L. W. Newman’s butterfly farm at Bexley, Kent, has aroused a great deal of interest among people who do not know what is the purpose of such a farm. Letters have been received from many sources asking for information on this point. The advent of the butterfly farm Is due directly to the great Increase in popularity of nature study during recent years. Field clubs, local nature history societies, school and other nature museums and private collecors of butterflies and moths are growing in nfcnber with such rapidity that an establishment like the one at Bexley, owned by Mr. Newman, Inaugurated with the idea of. supplying colletors of butterflies and moths with those insects in all their stages, has proved a busy and paying venture. Mr. Newman farms British Insects only; but he supplies museums of all grades of importance, and private collectors, also, on both sides of the Atlantic. His private customers range from a millionaire naturalist to schoolboys. The latter consult him by thousands, often sending him curious letters and ending with their “best love.*