Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-08-31 | Page 15 | Turrible Thick

THICK That's What Potato tato Bugs Has Became Became Became Be Be- came in Ia Our Midst Them Midst Them asas as Has as is at Their Wits' Wits End to Git S Shet e of f the he Bugs Bugs Bugs- They Be a Tumble Pest The Thc potato crop in and around Bingville Bingville Bing Bini ville promises to b be ver very slim this this' yr b being as the he pot potato to bugs has has haslet et up most of the potato tops above ab e gro ground grond nd and buddy with enny knows that wont won't wondo do an any good when the blamed potato bugs g goes s' s and eats eat all the tops offen them thein Bige Barker has has has' been bothered tur tur- by potato bugs bugs' this 3 sear ear Bige has two acres of planted a at the lower edge of town and when the pota potato o bugs begin to show up up ome on em cm cm Bige Biga he he undertook to pick all the potato bugs offen offer the every day but it t no use Bige says sars the pota potato o bugs on his was thicker blueberries blueberries' on at omi Saw ridge and they seemed to come fast ern he lie could pick em Bige picket 3 K ail full of potato bus buff bu wc ut forenoon and when he went to look look over ocr the tops he had jest picked offen offer he he says sas there was jest je t as man more to be bc picked B By this time Bige's back ached him so o that he give up the job in disgust and was so mad that he give ghe the 2 g gals ls of potato bugs that he had picked a fling ling and scattered cm eni all over the agin gin ginand and then w went t home in disgust This of of course was a foolish th thing ng Jo to o do Bite Bice tl n 1 ent gait to the theco co se seat t aril anti got 5 SIbs Ibs of Paris Green and this up tip with flour and water and sprinkled d the potato tops with it b but t as fur a as as' Bige can se see it didd nt hurt em a mite Bi Bine Bige e says avs ays on th the cont contrary the bugs sC seemed d to kind of thrive c on the Paris and nu result Bige Green and rat fat at up as as' a has quit using using am any more Paris P Green on his hi he he says says' hell he'll be dog dog- if f hes he's a going to feed a a passel of hungry hunH potato bugs on Paris that h hes he's 5 got to pay 25 per lb Ib for forand and nd iid go O clean to the co seat for it Ic be sides F n Bige fe says say's if them hugs bugs needs tlc the i pot wo worsen le he does docs they can an have en ern J H V hes y prop of our general general gen gen- eral store stort says rS he aint lin t a mite surprised J that the potato hugs is so thick thil in Bingville Bing Bing- yule ville and vicinity this yr jr I Ilen says as that last t spring when he heas was as lookin over o his books h he heerd a 1 noise noise him hits and wh when n he looked around there was the great grand u uncle grand of all the time potato pot bugs ever ver born bom perched on the I h hack back ck of his chair Hen Ten says this was vas the libS st potato bug ur le ie e ever e I seen in his life and he it h m was was was' lookin over o his shoulder on his bis book to see Jest who had bought seed We Ve however hov that th this s is isone isone one of or Hens Hen's jokes joks I