Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1908 — For the Butterfly Collector. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For the Butterfly Collector.

A writer in Recreation Magazine gives the following suggestion for a good butterfly net for boy collectors: Take a light but strong stick, a little over a yard long and saw a

notch about 1 % Inches deep in one end. For your hoop, take a strong piece- of hay-wire, or other stout wire, and twist the ends together, letting the two ends stick out on each side (Fig. 1.). Push this down

into the notch tn the stick and wind with twine or light wire. The hoop should be about 10 Inches across, and the net made of mosquito netting about 2 feet deep. A good setting-board can be made by cutting a notch about half an inch thick in an inch board. The body of the butterfly resU in this during the drying-out process.