The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-06-13

were not capable of self-government
and unacquainted with soap.
The Republicans Of Madison coun-
ty, have nominated Mr.. d. +. Davis
FOR the Legislature Capt VIM. NJ
Cooke, Jr., has announced himself a
candidate for Judge in the 9th Judi
cial District, running as an indepen-
dent Democrat against J. c. l.. Gud-
ger Esq, the regular Democratic
nominee. He states in his card that if
the Republicans bring out candidate
he shall withdraw This will make a
warm race in the mountain District,
notwithstanding its altitude. Maj.
Mark Erwin is an Independent candi-
date for solicitor in the same district.
Gen. Johnston Jones. sometime
ago resigned the editorship of the
Daily NelcS, left the city on Saturday.
with his family to make his home in
Morganton, where he will be asso-
ciated in the practice of law with Maj.
A. {. Avery in accordance with ar
rangCments made early III Spring. We
doubt if any old editor can finally, and
irrevCcably, abandon the profession,
and we shall regret if our friend shall
prove an exceptions; but pending the
uncertainty. we assure him of cordial
good wishes in his new field. And if
honesty, aightforwardness. and
jealous application, can win success.
we forsee it won.
Both Darwin and DIR. Vorni agree
that different habits of life, &c,
counteract the evils possible from
marriage between closely related per-
sons. DR.. Y. draws an illustration
from the Batz island community.
wherein three thousand people have
for generations intermarried until all
the population comprise one great
family, with one blood. Batz is a
rock peninsula, virtually an island, on
the coast of France. The people are
of simple habits, almost ignorant of
kinship have never known anything
like deaf-muteism, Albinoism, blind
ness. or malformation: and children
are plentiful as chickens. Perhaps, the
key to this high grade Of physiology
is to be found in the healthfulness of
the location, the lack of luxuries, and
the TOTAL-ABSTINENCE of the islanders.
Farmers of eastern North Carolina,
preserve this copy of the Farmer and
Mechanic or, at least those articles
which tell what insects are destructive
to the Colorado Beetle, and how to APP
ply Paris Green for their extermina-
ton. In this connection, it may be
we'll to warn our farmers, merchants,
and fruit men, to be careful in making
shipments, or in receiving shipments,
to see that none of the little pests are
lurking among the potatoes, and truck.
Experiments, recently made by the
| chronological Society of Ontario
/ Canada, show that mature Beetles can
live IL days without food thence
may be secreted in boxes, or barrels,
/ and carried from one state to another.
| Also, that one bug will eat, on an
/ average, a square inch of potato leaves
4 every 24 hours. They will not eat
| other garden plants. Thirty Beetles,
| at Toronto We're starved for one whole
! day, and then offered the leaves of
cabbage. beet, pumpkin, carrot, pars-
i nip, lettuce, sage, sunhower. and com
1 mon weeds-all of which they refused,
! with scorn for eight hours longer
! then some Potato leaves were thrown
in, and every bug began to s.chaw." 1t
appears, therefore. as the Country
! Gentleman remarks, that '.if no pota-
toes were planted within their reach
the race would soon die and disappear.
We trust our farmers will begin al
once to study the habits of, and best
method of dealing with, the impudent
little hum bugs.
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