Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — The Cochineal Industry. [ARTICLE]

The Cochineal Industry.

The cochineal is a larva which feeds upon the pulpy leaf of the cactus, and in the natural state looks like frost or mold. The people of Guatemala carefully scrape them oft' into gourds, and the cells being full of purple blood they make a liquid of the deepest color, For 200 years these bugs were the base of dye stuffs all over the world, and thousands of people were engaged in their cultivation. V/ * v He that gives good advice builds wifi* one hand; he that gives good connsel and example, builds with both, but he that givas good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. ’■ . ' ,