Connecticut western news., 1875-07-09
The Petato BHg.

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 The potato bug or Colorado beetle, as s'it is scientifically termed, has made its ap-- pearance in this section of the state and promises to make things livelly for the farmers. The first appearance Of the bug, In partially grown state, was in South
 We.hersAeld, Friday, where Mir. E. G. Ha. vsns found one potato plant nearly eaten up, and on it discovered number of worms, which are sef lan orange yellow, with A black head and . black ring around the first segment of the body. From the hsad9to the abdomen on either side of the ai body of this pest, are two rows of black dots. The larv@ is only from 1-4 to 1-2 of E sniieh in length, but they are large enough ' to do considerable damage among the pol tsao plants. eating up the tops and thus Killing the plants. The early potatoes are teo far advanced to have the work of these ,ahominations do nY damage to them, but i 1t b feared thatthe late crops will be great ! lx' damaged and probably destroyed. as the l, beefles, when once they get foothold, aspsead very rapidly.d It is reported that these iarvBs have been found in Glaston- bury. East Hartford and other places on the eat s,de of the river. - ,S,,,, ,-5sst : z l'p The iaryasi which have been found, after
 coming from the eeggs work for about three weeks, when theylgo into the ground end change to purple. and in about ten days T or two weeks the perfect beetles appear. sThese are about half ah inch in length, are a of thick oval shape and of syellow cream color, with ten dark brown or blackish
 lines running lengthwise down the wing covers. The head and thorax, or middle D portion sof the body, orof an orange brown ; eolpr, spotted or marked with black. Il achas, ini addition to the wing covers. pail ibof pink wings.which lie folded beneath and Q hidden except when the insect Is found in { icluafers of . dozen or two on the leaves oi
 the young vine, and lld,l batch e in very few
 dayssI, rag,,aI s s.1eof,,ri < f 3af55 l.
 How to get rid of these pests is ques- 5 ton, but picking them off the vines by
 hand is sure but laborious way of killing ig thsa, yet it is effectuar only so far as it it I pefsistentiy kept up. This method is noi r however. unattended by danger, as the poi
 sonous principle, of the beetle has been
 known to cause, death when 1t is handled [ too freely. The poison may be conmuni- 70 cated from contact by crushing between Il shs thumb and fingers of the hands, from 12t akInk without firss carefully cleansing the hands after handling the bugs and from in
 hsiing the steam arising from the vessel ir which they arc sometimes scalded.
 The use of Pars green is considered the
 most effectul way of disposing of them, I 1ksheuld be mixed while in pure state with ashes, land plaster or flower, in tho 2 proportion of one to twelve or fifteen, and ,bshould be lusted over tho plants in the
 nioining when the dew Is on the foliage T 1lfepeating in week or ten days, or after rains. when the insects are most plentiful | Three pounds of Paris, green to about forty
 pounds of the plaster or flour will answer yefsTan acEcs af Ip sdusting1 the plants, cafe mmhst be taken by the operator not to inhale the mixture, for serious consequences would resulf from breathing the dust freely. '--HaFgord Post, .rs..,5 E., s,se.y
 Nor THE GENUIEE BUG.--The Hartford CaKrGas says there is no doubt that some
 nsW and most pnwhplesome looking sort ol
 bug, lhss appeared, but specimen insects
 hGze teen sent to this office, which sc. ! quaintincesLof tte Colorado creature say ere not the real bugs. It is to be hoped ! that tlle whole valuation is of harmless soss. and t is consOling to be told that thest
 Massachusetts gEubs are not genuine, G,5
 lo FoREsrs AND RAIN. The much discussed
 question of the infuence of forests npor T rain fall has lately been made the subiee Of ssry interesting obsefystionsvbY Fautra isEsnd Sartiaux in France instruments fo
 detefmining the amount of rain fall, dsgre, q satnration of air by moisture, evapora
 ton and temperature, were placed at an ei eyation of about six meters ll8 l-2 feet
 ahogs the tops of treesoa and beech in the midst of a,forest covering 5000 hec is ansss (l2, 500 acres). Asfthe same elevation |, fourteen or fifteen meiersabove the surfac ss ef an adjoining portion of clearned an [ cultivated land, and at . distance of 30 meters l9s4 feet) from the edge of the fol
 iest, similar instruments were placed and s Y mnltAneous daily observations made. Th . i1rsti report of theses from February | so July, 1874, inclusive, showed for the peri ebod of six months total rain fall over tb
 forest of 1925 millimetcrs c 1 9 inchss - while that over the open ground was ohl ,, IT millimesers. The average for each. (
 she six months was larger over the fore
 shanSshe cleared land. The same was trr s of tho saturaiIon of the atmosphere, ft monthly average In the one case being
 per cent, and in the other GIT per cent.
 The authors conclude that if the dail
 observations in the future accord vii @ose, already made. It may be regarded
 Ie4 ldemonstrsted that forests form vast app .a raaus for condensation of moisture, ,al
 that there Is more rain upon them than U q on open land. .-f Editors Scientific Recor
 in Harpef's Magazine for July. -Ih
 Hi
 HNTs 10 B4rHRRs.--It ought to be ir
 pressed on the mind Of every one who Cd tisznoF swim-and by the way, swimming iia aas accomplishment that no one need be
 b1 noSans of-that in case person falls Tn
 the water when help is near. the best. a , 3toin fact the, only, way 10 aid rescue is 8,,axemain @ quietly as possible in the wat ria with the lungs kept inflated. ..Self,poss 'i3a iion is everything. A drowning pers 'ss 5ouRkt never to seize Iescuer, but simI v 'i to await his approaches and obey his col
 msnds. { Many s.life is lost because