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may yet be obtained through careful research and patient 

 study ahnost infinite. 



We go too mucli upon the principle that things brought 

 from over the sea and far away are more to be desired 

 than those originated near at home ; but far-fetched is too 

 often dear-bought — as witness the Norway oat, together 

 with many other varieties of cereals, advertised so glow- 

 ingly by such a disinterested personage as Uncle Sam, 

 througli the Department at Washington. ^ 



If it ])e true what these gentlemen tell us — and I see 

 no reason to doubt it — that we ma}^, by the art of hybrid- 

 izing, introduce an almost endless variety of cereals, as 

 improvements on what we now have ; if the Flemish 

 Beauty or the Bartlett pear can be changed for the better ; 

 if the Early Rose, Early Vermont, Peerless, Snowflake, and 

 such favored esculents must, by and by, give way for 

 more welcome competitors, what opportunities await him 

 who would first herald the news of their advent among 

 us ? A grateful people should be willing, at least when 

 goaded on liy self-interest, to reward with blessings that 

 are golden and charms that are solid, all such benefac- 

 tors of the race. 



Again, the study of entomology can but be of incalculable 

 benefit to the enterprising farmer. How little we know of 

 the character, habits and ravages of the multiplied forms of 

 insect life that so remorselessly prey upon our crops. 



It has been estimated that the damage done in this way 

 is, witliin the limits of our country, not less than $300,- 

 000,000. 



Prof. J. B. Turner, of Ohio, says, that the State of Illi- 



