THE 



VOL. 1. 



ST. LOUIS, MO., OCTOBER, 1868. 



NO. 2. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



H. OP. STrnDLE^ST Sc CO., 



104 OLIVE STREET, ST. LOUIS. 



One dollar per annum in advance. 



EDITORS : 



BEN.J. D. WALSH Rock Island, HI. 



CHAS. V. RILEY, 2130 Clark Ave St. Louis, Mo. 



POTATO BUGS. 



"We often see paragraphs in the papers, stating 

 that "THE Potato Bug" has been very abund- 

 ant and destructive in such a month and at such 



phxcc, "THE Potato Bug" may be checked and 

 controlled by such and such remedies. 



Do the worthy men, who indite these notable 

 paragraphs, ever consider for one moment, that 

 there are no less than ten distinct species of 

 bugs, preying upon the potato plant within the 

 limits of the United States? That many of these 

 ten species are conflned within certain geograph- 

 ical limits? That the habits and liistory of sev- 

 eral of them differ as widely as those of a hog 

 and a horse? That some attack the potato both 

 in the larva state and in the perfect or winged 

 state ; others in the perfect or winged state alone ; 

 and others again in the larva state alone ? That 



Colors— (j1) green and white; (B) mahogany brown; (C) black, gray and orange. 



and such a place. Accompanying these state- 

 ments, remarks are frequently added, that 

 "THE Potato Bug" is preyed upon by such 

 and such insects, so that we may soon expect to 

 see it swept from ofl' the face of the earth ; and 

 that, even if this desirable event should not take 



in the case of seven of these insects there is but 

 one single brood every year, while of the re- 

 maining three there are every year from two to 

 tlu-ee broods, each of them generated by females 

 belonging to the preceding brood? That eight 

 of the ten feed externally upon the leaves and 



