. An address upon farm pests, including insects, Fungi, and animalcules . n or walkwithout crushing them ; yet the crop of potatoes was the largestever known, and they were retailed in the streets for twenty-fivecents per bushel. This abundant crop w^as raised by every oneplanting in anticipation of high prices, thus bringing the oppositeresult. By some this beetle is considered poisonous, but from no justcause, as it can be picked from the potatoes day after day, bywhole families, with no bad results. Large quantities of themin a state of putrefaction, like all other animal matter, are disa-g
. An address upon farm pests, including insects, Fungi, and animalcules . n or walkwithout crushing them ; yet the crop of potatoes was the largestever known, and they were retailed in the streets for twenty-fivecents per bushel. This abundant crop w^as raised by every oneplanting in anticipation of high prices, thus bringing the oppositeresult. By some this beetle is considered poisonous, but from no justcause, as it can be picked from the potatoes day after day, bywhole families, with no bad results. Large quantities of themin a state of putrefaction, like all other animal matter, are disa-greeable, and doubtless unhealthy, and they should never beleft to putrefy, but be burned or destroyed with boiling waterand then buried. As they are voracious feeders, they may be 10 killed with poison like Paris green, mixed with flour, and dustedon the potato-leaves. A much better way is to brush them offinto a tin catcher, made on purpose, to encircle half the have much in New England to favor us in our persecutionof this pest, by way of its natural FB- 5- Fig. OF THE POTATO-BEETLE. The lady-birds, — Coccinella (^-notata and pupa (Fig. 2), Hip-podamia lypunciata, larva and pupa (Fig. 3), — destroy multi-tudes. The eggs of the lady-birds are very much like those of thepotato-beetle in color, but are smaller, and not so many in acluster, but always laid in close proximity to those of some otherinsect. As soon as they hatch they commence their war ofextermination, and, as they are voracious feeders, they followit up almost unceasingly. This lady-bird is about two-thirdsthe size of the potato-beetle when fully grown, of a yellowishred color, with two or more black markings on each wing-cover, 11 being shorter and more thick-set than the potato-beetle. In fine,they are about the size and the shape of a half pea. (See and 3.) There are several varieties, but all are the friends ofthe farmer, and should have special protection. So of the many-
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