Meigs County Telegraph

The potato rot has commenced in Maine and Wisconsin, and is becoming very severe in the vicinity of Cazenovia, New York. A correspondent of the New York Tribune gives his theory of the cause as follows:

"The mischief is all done by an insect. Let any person go and look at the leaves which begin to decay, and he will find underside of the leaves plenty of small green lice. They extract the juice from the leaves and the leaves dry up, and wither to almost nothing. When all the leaves are dead, the insects are all dead and gone also. The potato being thus despoiled of the foliage before it is ripe, rots and dies. This is the cause and the only cause of all the potato rot. Let any person who is curious in such things examine these insects with a magnifying-glass, and he will see how well they are adapted to do their work."