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while the latter mode, although on some accounts objectionable, is 

 more efTectual than any other agency that has been tried. Prof. 

 Chadbourne, of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, sums up 

 the treatment of this. matter as follows; (and for those who wish 

 additional information, I recommend the perusal of a treatise on 

 Potato Pests, by Prof. C. V. Kiley, published by the Orange Judd 

 Company, New York, and sold for 50 cents) : 



" 1. Plant a few potatoes in your field as early as possible, and 

 destroy the bugs as they appear on them. 



2. For the main crop, plant at good distance between the hills, 

 and manure well with ashes or such manures as do not specially 

 promote the growth of vines. 



3. Pass through the field after the potatoes are up, once a week 

 until the time of blossoming, picking all bugs, larvse and eggs 

 that appear. 



4. If for any reason the bugs get beyond the hand picking, use 

 poison till every bug is destroyed, if not for your own crop, for 

 the benefit of others. 



5. As bad as the potato bug is, remember that no other injuri- 

 ous insect can be more securely kept in subjection and destroyed 

 than it ; and those who are determined to raise potatoes can raise 

 them at an extra expense of not over five cents per bushel, in spite 

 of the bugs and their allies — the indolent farmers who feed them. 



6. Do not wait till the second crop of bugs appear, and then 

 try to demonstrate that hand picking is powerless against such an 

 army ; because it is conceded in the beginning without waste of 

 words. 



T. If j'ou are not determined to kill by hand or poison, every 

 bug that appears on your crop, then do not, as a good neighbor, 

 plant at all." 



It is impossible now to tell to what extent the present interest 

 in the beet sugar industry will take practical and tangible form 

 with the opening season ; but I am persuaded if mills for its 

 manipulation could be started at an expense of not more than 

 twelve or fifteen thousand dollars each, it would prove a profitable 

 business for our State. The culture of the beet would certainly 

 be a beneficial crop, for it would involve deep plowing, heavy 

 manuring and thorough weeding, while the increased amount of 

 manure secured from the cattle fed on the pulp, combined with 

 the thorough culture, would put the land in splendid condition for 



