896 Agricultural Eyitomology. [August, 



tlie public througli the medium of some good agricultural work, lie 

 will be doing more good to present and future agriculture than he ima- 

 gines, as it is from practical men we want facts, and not theories, 

 which may be better studied in the parlor than in the field. The 

 regular scientific entomologist studies insects merely as insects be- 

 longing to such an order, family, or genus, and as insects alone. 

 The Antennoe, Tarsi, Palpi, etc., must all be subjected to the 

 closest microscopic investigation. But as the farmer, or agricultural 

 entomologist, can not devote his time to all this, except in winter, 

 he would be much more usefully employed in studying their habits 

 and transformations out of doors, in the field, orchard, or garden ; 

 and lust, though not least, in finding out the proper remedies against 

 their ravages. He can jitreserve many insects in spirits of wine, and, 

 if he wishes the scientific name, he can send them to any regular 

 scientific entomologist, who, no doubt, will be happy to afi'ord him 

 the required information. Thus it is, the one helps the other, and 

 if all unite, the result can not fail eventually to prove highly sa- 

 tisfactory." 



Curious Adulteration. — Of late years in the markets of New 

 York and the other principal Atlantic cities, the grating and prepara- 

 tion of Horse Radish for the table, has become a large wholesale trade 

 — most families preferring to purchase the article in a form suitable for 

 use rather than to buy the roots and spoil a servant's eyes over a tin 

 grater. But recent investigations have exposed extensive, though 

 harmless, frauds committed in the wholesale preparations. It appears 

 that turnips, which are only about one-eighth the price of Horse Radish, 

 are grated in equal quantities with the latter root, and after being in- 

 timately mixed the whole is saturated with vinegar, which soon destroys 

 the taste of the turnips and converts the whole into a homogeneous 

 mass of Horse Radish, with its severely pungent taste slightly 

 diminished. 



A Raise. — "Sonny, I don't see anything growing about here, what 

 does your father raise on this land?" 



"Wall, he raises grasshoppers, hop-toads, tumble-bugs, and other 

 wegetables. Yesterday he raised a double-breasted pig-pen right under 

 the window, and mother raised Cain because he put it there." 



