Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1871 — Poultry and Potato Bugs. [ARTICLE]

Poultry and Potato Bugs.

This 'year I got out over a hundred early chicks, nnd eooped them abound the garden. We also planted pota’oes in the garden where we raised thehi together. Our potatoes were fairly up before I saw a bug, and then they came in force, fully grown and ready for action. I mixed up my pan of meal and started down the garden, followed by my army of chicks. I dropped a little meal among the vines as I went; took some bugs and offered the chicks; at first they refused them but on the second day I got thdm fairly ini : tiated, and every morning when I get up I look from my window and see the chicks going through vines which are now from eight to fourteen inches high, and not a leaf eaten or trace of bug to be seen. I have been through night and and morning, and after the first three days have not seen six bugs, and in the whole time have picked, seven deposits of eggs, whereas niy neighbor across the way says if he should pick all the eggs on his vines it would take all tlie leaves. lam satisfied chicks eat potato bugs, good big ones at that, and I hope to raise potatoes to eat.—Flint (itich.) Cor. IVeetern Rural. — The Newburyport Herald says the robin is not a wise bird. Between the floor joists of the second floor of Mr. R. Jaques’ new* house on Parker street, where the joistsirest upon the beam a robin built five diflerent nests. These interstices were so precisaly alike that the bird could not distinguish them, and performed her work five times over. t-r’- * A careless fellow, employed at the Hoosac runnel, was recently seen driving a four-mule team that was drawing 3,500 pounds of powder, upon which he was mounted, smoking his pipe, while there was a stage load of passengers a few rods behind, not at all calm, in consideration of the possibilities of the moment.