. The Saturday evening post. PHOTO. BY L. C. MCCLURE, DE Greeley Potatoes on the Colorado Farmof Lew Sweet The old men were grim and untalkative about thebusiness; they saw danger ahead. The younger men,especially one youth who had been over in the war, weremore explanatory. Well, if we beat these bugs, I heard this youngfellow say, well have only ninety-nine things more tobeat; and if we beat them, well get a potato crop. I pinned him down to facts. There are only about a dozen bad things that canhappen to a baby—measles, croup, scarlet fever, whoopingcough, and so on, I suggested. Does a bab
. The Saturday evening post. PHOTO. BY L. C. MCCLURE, DE Greeley Potatoes on the Colorado Farmof Lew Sweet The old men were grim and untalkative about thebusiness; they saw danger ahead. The younger men,especially one youth who had been over in the war, weremore explanatory. Well, if we beat these bugs, I heard this youngfellow say, well have only ninety-nine things more tobeat; and if we beat them, well get a potato crop. I pinned him down to facts. There are only about a dozen bad things that canhappen to a baby—measles, croup, scarlet fever, whoopingcough, and so on, I suggested. Does a baby potato runa bigger chance than a real baby? Well, ninety-nine dangers is pretty much, he and these other fellows who raise potatoes havefigured out at least seven things that can finish up a potatocrop, and its kind of discouragin to go to all this troublewith this dirty stuff just to beat one of these things, andknow all the time that six more may get you at the finish. Look here! If we kill these bugs, theres
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