Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1869 — Farm and Household. [ARTICLE]

Farm and Household.

Bestroy Pfigab Bugs. I A »A MMKR writes to the R«ral: 1 Almo»t as *oon as the pote’oes are up* the layer* c <oy: r.Qd depict their <j?g» on the under tide of the leaf After I have plowed my potatoes the first time, I hire my children tp nick the leaves that have I the heats on, ana bring them in and burn I them. The first year I set them to work I without pay it soon became tfreseme, in a 1 day or two they cnuld scarcely find any. I' told them I them fifty cynt* a ' hundred for every hundred brought in, or ' one for two; they went to work with re-' newtd energy, for children do not like to work without pay any better than you ori I do. The result has been in the last two year* my potatoes have been uninjured, while some of my neighbor’s potatoes were stripped by thlm. In the year 1866, I bad halt an acre in. The bugs were very bad that year. The potatoes rotted so bad that some of my neighbors did not get more than their seed, while I got only about one bushel of rotten potatoes that year. My boy gathered about 100 nest*, and my little girl about 40 nests. I paid them as I had promised, and with hi* fifty cents my boy bought a slate and Spencerian copy book, which he needed, and he prized them more than if I had got them for him, because he earned them and bought them with his own money. I have tried ashes and other bug humbugs, and find this the best and surest; besides it keeps the children out of mischief and cultivates in them a desire to earn something for themselves. Try it this year, brother farmers, and you will find your money well invested.