Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1920 — REFUSES TO BE COMFORTED [ARTICLE]

REFUSES TO BE COMFORTED

Given RemedyMbr Potato Bag-Pest, Pessimist*4Nfcs Up AnotherWu ToWbf Woo. v A Kansas City fartaer has proposed ( a scheme for doingaway ••with potato* ‘ bugs so simple”that It seems ridlcuy ' lous. Perhaps not much dependence is to be placed in agricultural, suggesI tlons offered by a Kansas City farmer. Kansas fanners should command -instant respect, but we would not be inclined to hive faith in a Kansas City fanner much more than tn a Manhattan farmer. However, this hint may be taken for what it is worth. The Kansas City idea Is that all that is necessary to keep the potato bugs away is to plant one bean in the hill - with the seed potato. It seems that the bugs hate beans. Perhaps they do. Anyway, in our own experience we can testify that we have never seen potato bugs feeding on bean vines. It would be a logical assumption that they win not venture Into the presence of beans.' So far ar we have observed there has not been a potato bug in our garden this season. Perhaps, that is because we did not plant any potatoes. But gardens develop or encourage all kinds of bugs besides potato bugs. That Is one of the harassing experiences of about every amateur gardener. And If it'll not bugs It Is something else. Just as you get your garden growing well, along come a couple of calves or a herdtrf cows and eat off the tops of everything. The bovine tribe seems to have a peculiar fondness for young corn. Only a person with bitter experience can fully 5 appreciate the significance of that old nursery appeal to Little Boy Blue to blow his horn on account vs the cow’s being te Hie corn. < | Between the pests that bite the roots or masticate-the leaves and-those that eat or trample the-plants ft is mighty hard to raise growing things.—F. H. Young in Providence Journal/