Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — The Ladybug. [ARTICLE]

The Ladybug.

“For the farmers Mother Goose has probably done as much as any of the agricultural scientists" was the remarkable statement made recently by Henry Griscon Parsons, who, as professor of horticulture, Is conducting a course in school gardening at the New York university summer school. “No,” be replied, “I am not poking fun at or belittling the biochemlc experts and their wonderful discoveries. But do you know the part played In agriculture by the-ladybug? The ladybug Ilves to eat the aphis, or- plant louse, which Is so destructive to plants. And did you ever see a child kill one of these aphis eating friends of farming? I never did. If a ladybug lights on a child’s hand, what does he do? Why he says, 'Ladybug, ladybug, fly away Walanl-gfintiLgtaits the insect on

its way. Mother Goose has taught the child to be kind to the ladybug, and as a result. Instead of being killed, these little creatures are cherished and allowed to do their beneficent work.”