Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1911 — SAYS BUGS DID NOT HURT POTATOES. [ARTICLE]

SAYS BUGS DID NOT HURT POTATOES.

Ed Oliver of Newland, who has out about 35 acres of late potatoes, tells us that the destructive long stripped bug that has been playing havoc with potato vines in many places, has not damaged any fields in his locality except one small field of one half acre, which they cleaned up. His potatoes, he states, are looking well and the rain Wednesday morning will help them out greatly. There are several hundred acres of late potatoes in the Gifford district and if the growers get a fair yield they will be wearing diamonds next winter.