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brownish yellow color, and, according to Harris, lives 

 in its feeding state five years. 



An application of ashes has been recommended 

 as a remedy ; but we have not found it to be of any 

 service. Rape cake, broken into small pieces and 

 scattered in different places through the field, attracts 



COLOKADO POTATO BUG. 



the grubs ; they collect to feed upon it, and large 

 numbers may be destroyed. 



The Colorado Potato bug {DorypJiora decem- 

 li.neata), has been doing misoliief in the West, but it 

 has not reached Kew Jersey or any of the Eastern 

 States. These bugs appear in great numbers, destroy- 

 ing all the foliage and injuring the crop very serious- 

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