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and if we take him, he won't be there. I have now no Curculios on 

 my plums, but since my plums begin to bear, my apples begin to get 

 sick. I began to shake the trees, and I could not do it always, and 

 so I got the old woman to shake. But that would not do any good, 

 because my neighbors would not shake, and they were blest with a 

 good crop of Curculios. Well, you know I had a barrel of wine that 

 would not come right any how, and it was leaking at the staves, and 

 so I put an old cai'pet round it, and the carpet all got full of the bad 

 wune. Well, I one day knocked the end of the barrel in, and threw 

 the carpet over a tree that was full of Curculios, and it killed them 

 all. Now, that is one cure for Curculio. Then there is another cure 

 for Curculio : American whisky. We can kill a rebellion in a short 

 time; we can kill anything; and shall we say that we cannot kill 

 Curculio ? Give him plenty of American whisky and it will kill him. 

 It will kill the devil if he take it. [Laughter.] 



RASPBERRIES. 



Mr. Flagg read a letter from Mr. Combs, of Collinsville : 



Considering tlie easy production and good quality of the Raspberry, as compared 

 with other fruits of the farm and garden, it is certainly greatly neglected. "While 

 nearly every farmer that cultivates his own land has his apple orchard and his peach 

 trees in the fence corners^ if no more, there is not one farmer in ten, and I believe not 

 one in twenty, in the State, that grows Raspberries enough for his own table, when 

 one-fourth of an acre, properly cared for, would supply him with an abundance of this 

 most delicious fruit, not only for the bearing season, but for the whole year. 



The grower of large fruits has many enemies to contend with. Some attack his tree 

 while growing, others attack the fruit, and sometimes render it almost Avorthless; but 

 in cultivating the Raspberry, there are no destroyers to contend with; and, after 

 waiting for years for his trees to grow, his hopes may be blasted by a cold snap in the 

 winter killing the buds, or a late frost may catch them in blossom; but there is no 

 uncertainty in the cultivation of the Raspberry. I have been growing them for the 

 last ten years, and have been familiar with them for twenty years, and I have never 

 knowm a failure in the crop, I don't wish to be understood to discourage tree plant- 

 ing, but I would say to all, plant trees, and plant berries too, and not only Rasp- 

 berries, but other small fruits, enough at least to have a succession during the Iruit 

 season; and after you have planted, don't forget to cultivate. That is the great 

 essential to success. 



Raspberries require about as much cultivation as is necessary to grow a good crop 

 of corn ; perhaps a little more the first season, as they should be tended later, and the 



