Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1914 — Forehanded Beetles. [ARTICLE]

Forehanded Beetles.

Several farmers were sitting around the fire In the country Inn and telling how the potato pests had got into their crops. Said one: I “Them ate my whole crop in two weeks." » Then another 1 spoke up: "They ate my crop in two days and then sat around on the trees and waited for me to plant more.”' Here a commercial traveler for a seed house broke in: ’ “Well, boys,” he said, “that may be so, but 11l what I saw in our own warehouse. I saw four or five beetles examining the books about a week before planting time to see who had bought seed.”