Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1874 — Potato Bugs. [ARTICLE]

Potato Bugs.

On the 19th of July last, Mr. Michael Collins while engaged in digging potatos on the farm of T. Tait, Esq., captured a number of potato bugs, and put them in an empty bottle, closing the mouth to prevent their escape. He placed the bottle by a post on the ground, making the remark that he would ascertain “how long the ‘critters’ would live, anyhow.” The summer passed away and the winter followed bringing no thought of the incarcerated bugs. Last week, in passing, Mr. Collins observed the bottle and picked it up. It contained the intact though motionless forms of the potato-top destroyer. In the caprice of the moment, he took the bottle to the house and held it over the fire.—Immense was his astonishment ojjj perceiving the bugs take to themselves ajid walk.' In few moments

the interior of the bottle was a mass of Colorados. Eight months without food, exposed to the extremes of summer and winter, and still living. This statement is fully vouched for, and shows what a foe farmers, and potatos, have to contend with. —Joliet (111,) Sentinel. While Republicans and Democrats may not carry their politics into the Grange, the Grangers may and'ought to carry their principles into politics. They are interested, as all good citizens are, in secureing good government, and to this end they should work, earnestly and unitedly, for the purification of politics, and for the nomination and election of good men to office. —lndianapolis Journal.