-—,s New Yorx Acricuururan Experiment STarion. 
A new machine brought to the Station for trial by the inventor, 
under the name of “Ansley’s Potato Bug Catcher,” was run for a 
trial in the garden where the beetles had been recently poisoned, 
and consequently few were gathered by its fans into the trays. 
But it was noticed that there were many flea beetles collected. 
The beetles are brushed into a shallow pan, in which a small 
quantity of kerosene has previously been put, and one horse 
draws the machine, which covers two rows at a trip. This 
machine was passed several times over our B, C and D plats, and 
proved a veritable flea beetle collector, and the only thing we 
tried which could materially diminish their numbers. To those 
who object to the use of poison, this machine offer a fairly rapid 
means of destroying the Colorado beetles, while it adds the flea 
beetles, as well as lady bugs and everything else the paddles can 
brush into the pans. It will go over about twice as much ground 
with the operator walking and guiding it as can be cultivated 
once in a row with the same horse and driver. 
The Kendall Paris Green Distributor will poison about the same 
area, but the poison seems to have no effect on the flea beetle, and 
does no direct harm to friendly insects unless some are poisoned 
by eating poisoned beetles. 
DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF SEED. 
_B plats. On each of the tenth acre B plats 8, 9, 10,11 and 12 
were planted three rows each of -three different sizes of whole 
tubers carefully selected of even sizes, so the weight of the eighty- 
eight tubers of smallest size required for one row was eleven 
pounds, eighty-eight tubers of medium size required for one row 
was sixteen and one-half pounds, eighty-eight tubers of largest size 
required for one row twenty-two pounds. The seeding per acre 
and result of trial are given below : 
