It is surprising how slow profitable information travels. It is now many years since the Gardeners' Monthly first proposed to destroy the beetle with Paris Green. This has been taken up so generally by the agricultural press, and so generally practiced, that one would suppose that, large as our country is, there is not a corner so obscure that this light has not shined into it.

By the following from a daily paper it seems there are yet some dark places:

"Gathering potato bugs is quite a lucrative business in parts of Virginia, and as high as $2 a day is earned by some of the women engaged in it. Compensation is at the rate of five cents per ' yeast powder' can full of the insects".

There is some hope for intelligence even here, since they possess at least "yeast powder cans".

The whole lump will be leavened eventually.