Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1877 — The Phylloxera. [ARTICLE]

The Phylloxera.

A rival to the potato bug in European fears is that other American visitant, the phylloxera. This little pest has been detected at work in several Swiss vineyards—at Neuchatel, Boudry and Colombier, where delicious white and red wines are produced. Straightway the infected areas were incircled by a zone of white flags, guarded by police, and no stranger allowed to enter them. Then men were set to work pulling up every vine, sat orating its roots in petroleum and bur" ling it, while the whole soil was treated with a thorough medication warranted to kill out any of the insects existing therein. They certainly have an energetic plan of precautionary farming over the water, as the Cologne potatofield and the Neuchatel vineyards attest. A man in Boston made a savage assault the other day upon his doctor, while suffering from temporary insanity, brought on by a too-free indulgence in ham and eggs. The Globe calls attention to the fact that a too-free indulgence in that toothsome viand must therefore be regarded as a most dangerous and deadly practice.