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because it would violate a general rule, which both 

 propriety, and justice to our old subscribers, nriai<e it 

 necessary to observe. We frequently have inqui- 

 ries made wiiich have already been fully answer- 

 ed by articles in some of the earlier volumes ol' 

 this work, and which could not be again more sa- 

 tisfactorily answered than by a republication of 

 tlie same. Such republications also would be as 

 interesting and useful as any thing we could fur- 

 nish to those who had never seen them belbre ; 

 and the plan would be a great convenience to the 

 publisher. Nevertheless, those who would be the 

 gainers by such a procedure must see that it would 

 be unjust thus to present ag;iin to all of our oldest 

 Bubscribers, who have paid for ihe Farmers' Re- 

 gister from its commencement, articles which ihey 

 liad before received and paii! lor. Yet, in declining 

 to make such republications lor the benefit of new 

 subscribers, we have no other alternative course 

 than to teXcr them to the o'der volumes containing 

 the information, and which course has much the 

 appearance of being used as an indirect request 

 to them to buy the volumes so referred to. And 

 the fear of this construction being placed, has ren- 

 dered it (in that respect) disagreeable to us to re- 

 fer to old articles, or to recommend their perusal 

 to later readers. But having been thus drawn to 

 make this explanation and apology, we will dare 

 to go farther, and say, once for all, that every sub- 

 scriber to the present volume of the Farmers' Re- 

 gister, who values the work, ought, for his own 

 interest's sake, to buy the earlier volumes, and 

 complete his set. For the reasons and because of 

 Ihe procedure stated above, each volume contains 

 matters different from all the others, and without 

 which all the others would be very deficient. And 

 we will presume further to say, that there is not 

 one of the volumes, the perusal of which would 

 not be worth to any intelligent and improving cul- 

 tivator more than the price of the entire series. Of 

 the first volume, a second edition of 500 copies 

 has lately been printed, at a cost (because of the 

 small number and the still smaller demand) far 

 exceeding the price at which the volumes are sold. 

 Of other earlier volumes, there remain only 

 enough to furnish about 150 complete sets; and, 

 with the experience of the past, we have no ex- 

 pectation of being induced hereafter to reprint 

 any more. Therelbre, all later subscribers who 

 desire to complete their sets, should hasten to do 

 eo while it yet can be done.— Ed. F. R. 



WORMS IN PEACH TREES. 



From the Boston Cultivator. 

 Mr. Haskell says he has taken the peach worm 

 from the roots of his trees, and confined him under 



a glass until he turned lo an insect. He feels con- 

 fident that Ihe worm which comes from the nits of 

 this season, turns to an insect during the next — 

 therefore if we kill the e^gs or the nils at this sea- 

 son of the year, when ihey will be found on Ihe 

 bark of the tree, we need be at no trouble to dig 

 out the worms from the body of if. 



One mode of killing these eggs is lo pour scald- 

 ing water on to the body of the tree — and if it is 

 two inches in diameter we need not fear to turn on 

 a quarl or two. Strong ashes put close lo tho 

 body will kill the eggs. Strong lie applied with 

 a swab is as good as any thing — but we should 

 never cut out these worms with a knile. Let them 

 turn to flies and we can then destroy their pro- 

 geny in ih»^ egg. 



Mr. H. sayvS the insects that come from ihig 

 worm of the peach tree resemble the mud wasp. 



AID OF THE LEGISLATURE AND OF AGRICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETIES REQUIRED TO IMPROVH 

 THE CO-VDITION OF POOR CULTIVATORS. 



To ttie Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Will you not revive the proposal to establish a 

 board of agricidture 7 Could we not have, as in 

 New York, a state agricultural society? And if 

 so, miglit not the plan succeed well of holding its 

 meetings in ditlerent portions of the state — going 

 regularly through from year to year, until the cir- 

 cuit of ihe whole should be completed ? 



And when the presidential election is over, the 



muficaulis fever having passed away, and 



* become as plenty as blackberries, would it not 



be a favorable time ajj^ain to press upon that class 

 of our population who ought to be silk growers, 

 the expediency of turning their attention lo if? 

 No one in this state, so far as J know, has given 

 that subject half the attention you have, or done 

 half so much *o awaken our people to their true 

 interest, as connected with this important branch 

 of domestic industry. Bui, unlbrtunalely, the 

 Farmers' Register does not reach them, nor in- 

 deed any other pnjjer from wliich thoy miijht de- 

 rive inforinaiion so important to them. Few of 

 its subscribers, I apprehend, put it into the hands 

 of their poorer neighbors, who are unable them- 

 selves lo subscribe for it, or impart lo ihera the 

 valuable information it contains. 



As to the production of silk, it seema to me that 

 its greatest value, as well in a moral as pecuniary 

 point of view, will be found in the employment of 

 those, both old and young, who now are con- 

 sumers and idlers only — not producers. But with 

 the poorer class of our people, there exist difficul- 

 ties, insurmountable by themselves alone, which 

 miu;ht be removed by public-spirited individuals 

 who have wealth and leisure, or by the state. Do 

 not start at the reftjrence to her — I am not now, 

 nor was I ever a larifT man. But I cannot con- 



* This word in the manuscript was entirely illegible, 

 and its shape did not admit of even a plausible guess, 

 which of course it is the editor's duty to hazard in all 

 such cases, and afterwards to bear all the blame for 

 guessing wrong. Therefore a blank is left, which the 

 reader may fill, according to his political or other in- 

 clinations, with either the word "money," or "credit," 

 or " paper," or "morus." — Ed. F. R. 



