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Here is a letter upon the other side of this question : 
Salina, Kansas. 
Dr. W. LeBaron: . , 
Dear Sir -Some time since you requested a report from those who experimented with 
Paris-green. Here is mine: . „ . 
The Colorado Potato-bug attacked my potato patch. X dusted the vines with Pan - 
ween mixed with twice its bulk of flour. The poison was applied in the morning when 
the dew was on. I killed thousands of bugs-in fact the ground was really covered. I 
could scrape them up by the handful. Many potato vines turned black and died For 
.very bug that died a thousand seemed to come. They ate up all my potatoes and Paris- 
ween too. I dissent from the position that the bugs shun the presence of the Paris- 
green ; if so they would not eat it; and I found as many on the vines that I thoroughly 
dusted as any. They ate them entirely up, stalks and all. L - • 
Fighting against these voracious, prolific and many-brooded in¬ 
sects is often, it must be confessed, very discouraging work,, of 
which the letter just quoted gives an example, and the following 
case is another of a somewhat different character. One of my 
townsmen, Mr. John Hepworth, an industrious and careful farmer, 
had nearly an acre of choice potatoes, which, by frequent hand¬ 
picking he had preserved from the insects till about the middle of 
July, when, being driven with harvest work, he paid no farther 
attention to them. Two weeks later I saw these vines and they 
were half eaten up by the second brood of these loathsome ver¬ 
min, and covered by them to such an extent that the owner aban¬ 
doned them to their fate. A week later, Aug. 6, nothing but the 
leafless stalks remained, and the insects, mostly in the larva state, 
were leaving them and crawling in all directions in search for food. 
In this case most of the insects had come in from a neighboring 
potato patch which had been neglected. No doubt hundreds, if 
not thousands of similar cases have occurred throughout the coun. 
try in the course of the past season. A timely use of the Paris- 
green would have gone far to save the crop in such cases. But 
where the potatoes have become worthless, either from necessity 
or neglect, there is but one resort left to procure any return from 
the land, and that is to plow it up in season to raise some one of 
the rapidly maturing crops, such as buckwheat, turnips, or Hunga¬ 
rian grass. 
The great objection to the use of Paris-green is its virulently 
poisonous nature, which renders it liable to injure seriously and 
