Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1877-09-27

potatoes IN the fall. at 4 dollar DlShel
!. are better than a serpent's tooth or :
thankless child. and he goes to bed dream
ing of wealth pouring in on him in fur
rows, and the next morning he visits hi.
field and sees some red spots on the pota
tO-vines. about as big as pin-heads. HI
notices that they give rather 4 genteel lool
to the leaf. In a day or two hy sees thes.
red drops begin to grow, and then t.
crawl. and in three or four days he goes
out and is so surprised at what he sees thai
yon could not paint his look of astonish
ment, nor even prime it over one coat with
less than bucket of paint lie sees that
the potato-bug has arrived, and has
brought his whole family, and all his wife's
800 friends. He s..there with--all his tools
and implements of labor. lie sees bug
about as large as the. letter O. when il
drops from the lips of small boy, as he
inca1tiously sits down On an adult bull
thistle. He sees this bug laid off in stripes
endWise, like the marks of Il gridirOn on a
slice of broiled liver. He sees that what
the bug lacks in size he ga,ts in quantity.
He is there and keeps coming. He has as
much mouth in proportion to his length as
the Amazon river or Soldene. lie can beat
horsefly laying eggs. and have seen him
do the job at the rate of twelve miles an
hour.
The only sure way to get rid of the po-
tatO-bug is to move off soneW here else.
There are Il number of methods that work
somewhatly. One MAJ: set up a steam
trip-hanmcr on his farm, and hired half
grown Sunday School to catch the bugs
and run them under the hammer. After
trying this week he found that as the
nights grew longer the biigs gained on
him. ard he gave it up. Next to English
sparrows. there is nothing that increases
faster than potato-bugs, unless It's the in
tcrest on an unpaid note.
\ farmer told me that he tried Paris
green on his bugs. lie said he'd be hang
ed if he ditln' Use up about barrel of the
stuff and the bugs ate it all up, and in two
or three days they set up Il store in the
corner of the field and advertised that they
would sell Paris green at retail cheaper
than he could buy it at wholesale. He
said he lost his confidence then in Paris
green. and gained Il corresponding amount
OF confidence in the bugs.
The farmer is independent. lie can stay
on his farm from one years end to anoth-
er and raise al he needs to sustain life. and
be under obligations to no one. lie can
have the pleasure of feeling that on the
fruits of his toll depends the nations
strength and prosperity. lie truly earns
his bread by the sweat of his brow. and.
unless he is ball-lleaded, he seldom has
brow in proportion to tie sweat.
Nearly all ollr great men we're raised on
Il farm, and il is. their especial delight in
their speeches to mention the fact, and re-
mention it, and atterW;rd allujle to it, and
tell how happy they We're. and how they
love the Old place with its old farm house.
and how they look back on their boyhood
days and wish they had never left the old
farm. and long now to return to it and pass
the remaipder of their days, and resign
$1,000 office and settle down and be happy
again.
l have listened to these speeches and
read them. and have spent two large for
tunes in trying to find a solitary ease where
one of these men ever left Il farm and got
rich, either by stealing, or in any other
honest way, and then went back to the
dear old farm to live; and up to the first
day OF July | have been unable to find
one.
| now have two of the smartest iletec-
tives in the country looking after such
man. and in my humble opinion they will
find Charley Ross several times before
they find my man.-Bostom Weekly Globe