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sipelas, their faces being so much swollen as almost to close their 
eyes. There are also several cases on record of severe inflamma¬ 
tion of the hand and arm, after handling these insects, when 
there was an abrasion of the skin. 
But it is not necessary to touch the insects with the hand. The 
common practice is to knock them off into a pan or pail. As 
simple and convenient a plan as I have heard of was adopted by 
one of my neighbors, Mr. H. C. TIawkins. He took an old meal 
bag, cut it off in the middle so that it might not be inconvenient¬ 
ly long, and fitted into it a small hoop so as to keep the month 
open, and then, passing along the rows, knocked the bugs into 
the bag with the flat side of a shingle, occasionally shaking the in¬ 
sects down to the bottom of the bag, from which they could not 
easily escape. 
It is not my intention to enumerate the hundred and one me¬ 
chanical contrivances that have been resorted to for the purpose of 
killing these insects. I only mention a few that seem to me most 
worthy of imitation. Mr. J. W. Clark, of Twin Hills, Wisconsin, 
makes use of the following wholesale method, in field culture. A 
person with a common broom held perpendicularly with one 
hand and grasped as low down as convenient with the other, 
passes along close to or astride a row of the vines, and with a 
quick lateral motion strkes the vines first on one side and then on 
the other, scattering the bugs into the spaces between the rows. 
Another hand follows immediately after with a plow and crushes 
or buries the greater proportion of the insects. If the potatoes 
have been already plowed and hilled np, he drags along the fur¬ 
row a heavy bundle of brush, or a small harrow made for the 
purpose. A considerable proportion of the insects will of course 
escape, but the operation is so rapidly performed that it can be 
repeated as often as necessary. Mr. C. closes by saying : “On the 
whole, we confidently offer this system of treatment as one that 
will be found cheap, rapid and effective. The work can be 
performed in half the time that it requires to apply Paris-green, 
which, moreover, is not a fit thing for children to handle. The 
only cost is labor, and this not difficult. A smart boy or girl will 
easily broom over an acre in two hours.” 
The second of the methods above enumerated is sun-burning. 
