Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1918 — Soap and Fertilizer From Insects. [ARTICLE]

Soap and Fertilizer From Insects.

Locusts are plentiful In Uruguay and the farmers of that republic are compelled to keep up a constant war against them. Millions of these destructive insects are killed every year. Recently it was learned that soap, fertilizer and lubricating oil may be obtained from the dead locusts, and in the future they win be utilized.—Popular Science Monthly.