The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-06-23


though some are wise, yet there Is AWAY
"another some" otherwise. The wisdom o
the one class consists in doing every righ
thing at the right time; and the folly OF thu
other, either in doing right things at the
wrong time, or wrong things at the right tins
1t is quite a common remark about this time
! that the bugs are DISAPPEARING or dying on. So
did the worms leave the trees or conceal them
selves in leafrolls. But it is only for time.
They are now in their pupa or chrysalis state.
The worms being the larve Matched from the
eggs of a certain species of miller, and being
now in the third or pupa state of their meta
morphosis, have yet to change into the fourth
or last state, and then come forth perfect
wringed insect, just the same as the moth
which deposited the eggs from which the
worms or Iarve were Matched. just so it
must be with the potato bug-frst the eggs,
second the Larvae, third the pupa and fourththe
perfect beetle with its wrings and striped
wiring covers.
If that individual Is a benefactor who has
caused even two blades Of grass to grow where
DuJ On0 BIGW uCAO4Og A4lOll u1uCu 4iOIo buOulu
we call him benefactor who destroys single
potato bug, especially if it be done before she
deposits her first egg. This brings us to the
importance of seeking them early in the sea-
son. For they issue forth from the ground in
the sprig about as soon as potatoes are up, and
soon commence depositing their numerous
nests of eggs on the under side Of the leaves
Lucky is the man who finds these eggs and
destroys them within six days. But more
lucky still is he, who, ever watchful, arrests
the ten-ived spearman before the mischievous
work is begun; and thus forestaIling the disa-
greeable necessity of either capturing an in
Vulnerable host Of the progeny, or, what is
still worse, of witnessing the total destruction
of his field of potatoes In this work of death
and Ife-death to the bugs and life to the po-
tatoes-pluck is luck. Therefore the more
pluck a man evinces the better luck he will
experience.
So much for the bugs and those who kill
them. And now for the "taters" and those
who till them. As the early rose variety is,
or at least ought to be, the principal one now
allow me to say here, to those
who may have planted it for the first time, |
that the hills should be made very large, for
the reason, both because the potatoes love to |
swell up to a large size, and also because they
grow nearer to the surface than any other /
variety. The early roses are great settlers too.
They commence setting very early and con-
tinue to set higher and higher up In the hill
until the hill is crowded full; and then they
set again, and take seat and sit on the
vines above ground in spite of the sun and
wind and weather. Allow me here to relate
a little anecdote by way Of illustration. AS
is nothing as it were now days, it
is sufficient to say that there was an excursion
party somewhere this side of the Rocky Noun
aims. A certain gentleman had found some
iouor by the way, and, as matter Of course,
,ad lost proportionate amount of manhood
BE seemed at a loss to find his seat again,
Fhen one of the company asked him if he
,ould not find seat. "Yes," says he 81 have
,ot my seat, but no place to put it.
KIP. DIGIT.