Show I POTATO BUGS IN HAW KAW VALLEY DO SERIOUS DAMAGE OLATHE Kan June Juno 13 The The potato growers STowers of the Kaw river all valley y are very much alarmed on account of an unprecedented unprecedented dented Invasion of their potato farms by bythe bythe bythe the Colorado beetle the larva lana of oC which threatens to destroy the tho entire potato crop of the valley alley The farmers armors havo have bought about all the power sprayers to tobe tobe tobe be had lead In Kansas City and are using tons of Paris green I 1 efforts to save their crops Some Idea of oC the danger to tho the thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of acres ma may be had when It is known that the sprayers which the Ka Kaw e valley potato g growers rowers are arc buln buying as fast as they can be shipped In cost from 50 to 75 i 76 each Many who are unable to secure the power sprayer are aro using ordinary nar nary sprinkling pots with a mixture of Paris green n and water So far the war has been a failure on account of the nu numerous numerous nu- nu rains that wash the tho plants clean clenn before tho the bug buS gets his poison polson and the fields are so 80 soft that the time power sprayers can not be us deto advantage The Kaw valley potato crop Is one of the chief sources of revenue to the farmers farm tarm- farmers ers along the river but hut the bu bugs s and the tho rains mains this I season eason will HI be the time cause of not only a shortage but an Inferior crop rop In ISH 1879 the Colorado beetle made this part country a a. visit and nd continued cast east to the Atlantic Since then the alle valley has been free of the pests and the visit has caught the potato en entire entirely entirely en- en tire unprepared |