The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-05-22
Bib ARP'S LETTER
|Tries 0,d-Fashioned Plan to An
initiate Potato Bugs.
children ARE PAID TO GATHER THEM
Nickel a Dozen is the Price, and the
Little Ones Surprise Hlm,--col.
onel Reddlng's Suggestion.

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q exterminate the potato bugs. He
laws begin early and watch for the
Y 6Nt ones that come. Make an inspec.
ion every morning and kill the large
" trjped ones before they lay their eggs.
y Nv crop is about six inches high, |
have six long rows in the garden and
he other morning found the pesky
<hipgs had come, killed about thirty
md then told the children-the grand.
n ebildren mean-that would pay
Them a nickel for every dozen bugs
+, lhey found That evening they killed
xty and the next morning forty, and
his morning fifteen, and this evening
a en-. So the three little girls brought
ne In debt sixty cents and feel rich.
'rhe bargain is that they are to pay me
back for all find and have not found
but Eve yet, though | don't look very
carefully. Children like to work for
money just like grown folks. l re.
member well the first half dollar
liver earned. My father was clearing
and and told me | might have the
kaplings II would trim them up and
bile the brush and | might have the
Wagon and team to haul them to town
\ hnd sell them. | had the evenings
litter school and Saturdays to work
Ind soon had load ready and sold It
10 our school teacher for a silver half
Dollar, was rich, and as drove home
~ felt of 1t in my pocket every little
.lRhile to be sure 1t was there. like
% reward these little chaps, for 1t does
them so much good and makes them
@ love me. The love of an innocent
.thlld is the purest on earth except the
Dove Of mother l have no greater
comfort now than the glad smile OF
little one that jumps into my arms
whenever come. 1t fatters my van.
ty, for though | am old and ugly the
little ones will hug me and pat my
7Frinkled cheeks and turn away from
hose who are young and handsome,
Frhe greatest inducement for a parent
10 be a Christian is to secure the sal
Patton of their children and meet them
n heaven, for Il is said in the scrip.
lures In three places, Believe in the
lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
ayed-thou and thine house" Sc let
y he good mother not despair of her
picked son who went unrepentant to
is death and may these words always
comfort her, thou and thine house"
MOI the sake Of ten good people the
lord would have saved Sodom, and for
PIE sake of good parents He will save
q be children.
Last year my potato crop was seri-
fusly damaged by these bugs, and by
be paris green, too, for used too
much Of it, and so am taking Colonel
Redding's advice and killing off the
ig striped beetles before they lay
Sheir patches of yellow eggs on the UNI
er side of the leaves. instructed
be children to look for eggs and
hey found only two leaves with eggs
p them. With a little sharpened
n tick they dug around the base of ev-
Ny plant, and there found most Of the
'veetes, but am already satisfied with
Pc experiment, and hope that / will
+ lot have to use paris green at all.
shall continue my bargain with the
hildren, even IL 1t is expensive. |
Terheard them plotting this evening
&bout going to the drug store tomor-
pw and buying some ice cream, and
pey agreed TO take two saucers
piece. These little girls are great In
MENTIONS, and love to watch them and
animate and ponder why II was that
pildren, especially boys, get more self
h and deceitful as they grow older
ne devil seems to let them alone until
|pey get weaned from their mother,
ri The good and the bad are strangely
liked in this world. New plaques and
stilences keep on coming, both on
pimal and vegetable life, but kind
providence has provided remedies and
ven us minds to ind them. But I
hve found no way to keep the pig
Pns from preying on my young peas
.N they peep from the ground. They
w terly destroyed my first planting
d have begun on the second. We
We had flock for many years, and I
ver knew them to trouble the garden
fore, I say. Colonel Redding, what
nst do about itY My wife says COW
them with brush, and win If |
n ind the brush. The English spar
Tvs do leave us most Of the crop, but
pigeons don't leave us anything
elSon / will have to turn the boys