SOFT X=RAYS
EXPERIMENTS ON MEAL WORMS. One of the most pathetic little stories come to us from Cornell University, where they are experimenting with soft X-rays on yellow meal worms, says the “'New York Times.” It seems that the X-rays enable the scientists to study the digestive processes of these insects, an examination not hitherto possible. The first step, however, is to starve the meal worms. This is mean enough in itself, but when they are fed again the worms sutler pitifully from dyspepsia. Indigestion pursues them to the end of their days, turns their stomachs and causes them to develop distressing bubbles in their insides, although they look all right from the outside. To a meal worm, naturally interested in nothing much but the next meal, this is a pretty hard fate, which bicarbonate of soda tablets apparently do little to alleviate.! The present bilious outlook of the world is so pronounced that it really jeems a bit thick to extend it to the hitherto cheerful meal worm. And what does it prove, anyway?
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1938, Page 5
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