St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-27
THE OLD BUG PEST
Is Rumored lowering About
Again, Looking for a Chance to

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Again, Looking for Chance to
Work.
Special to the Globe.
FOUNTAIN, Mimi, May 16.-We did
rejoice in the rain that came down,
although it was not all that was re-
CURED; and now that the corn and
amber cane seed has been about all
planted, the rain again visited us in the
hight time, and so silently as to hardly
disturb the lightest sleeper. During the
long hours of Tuesday night. and all
the skies so far as we could see, and on
that night another gentle fall of rain,
and the same programme was re-
peated Thursday, with the excep-
ton of extreme heat in the afternoon
and vivid lightning with the storm that
swept around to the south and east,
while the wind seemed to increase in
force about this section. However,
after IL o'clock all was quiet, and again
the gentle rain fell until the earth was
saturated, and the enervating heat had
passed away and delightful GOODNESS
filed all the air. On Friday morning
the sun refused to shine, and the leaden
clouds hung like pail over this part of
the land with promise of more rain.
We hope more rain will come. and will
be accompanied with the GOODNESS re-
quired just now. The chintz bug is re-
during the past week and much I'M
easineSs is expressed. Seed wheat costs
money and it is rather expensive food
to feed chinch bugs on, and the corn
crop is in danger of being destroyed as
soon as it appears above ground. as it is
reported the bug is at work in the fields
of barley, and if that is cut down the
bugs will certainly attack the corn, and
the amber cane will not escape. it is
feared. These cool rains and the real
GOODNESS that follows them may end the
lives of many bugs that are now re-
ported to be abroad looking for the food
they require to sustain an ignOminiOuS
life-a life that is no benefit to any
one or useful for any purpose, that is
known to mankind. And we fray that
an determination of these insects will
be sudden and short in time. We hear
that Olmsted county, adjoining this
county north, has no show of any bugs
so far this season, for which we rejoice
with the people thereof, and hope the
bugs are all dead and decayed in that
portion of the state, and wish that
these pests were at once exterminated.
1t may be this county will not be badly
afflicted this season with bugs, and that
the present scare will not amount to
anything serious. The small amount
of snow the past winter was not so dis
astrOus to the bugs as was hoped it
would be death and utter destruction to
the whole tribe.
But the clover fields suffered from the
want of good covering, and much was
killed out, until the fields have very
patched appearance on some farms, and
this will shorten the crop of clover seed,
it is feared. by some farmers that know
puts into their pockets. The rye win
tered well, but where mixed with WIN
ter wheat it is hard to say at present
how that mixture may turnout un-
til the fields begin to head
out. SO that the distinction can
be made between the two grains, and
thus learn if the rye protected the
wheat from the winter just passed.
There is no complaint of any damage
done in the pasture lands or on the hay
meadows by the open winter weather.
In fact the winter was very fine for live
stock, which comes out in fine cOndi-
ton; nor is there any complaint of loss
among cattle or swine, and early pigs
are very QeclQ6Qly up anu a-grOWlnS
lively enough to suit the wishes of any
persona little more so, as they make
their presence known at all
places convenient to themselves
and very inconvenient to the
women of the household that want
flower garden, but find the festive pigs
most decided detriment and destruc-
tive animals to have around the place.
Somehow these animals on the farm
cannot be kept in their proper place, )
at least the men of the household say
so. and we must believe it or cOntrive
some way to convince them that little
work and a little expense will keep
these torrents in the pen or pasture,
and away from the house and grounds
surrounding the house; meanwhile the
pigs live and flourish without regarding
the women's trouble with them.
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.