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as stewards of our country's prosperity they are more 

 immediately responsible; let them do this work with 

 all their might, and ai^ain we say, we look not beyond 

 them lor ultimate success. Wo are not, however, 

 over ganguine of success of any or all these schemes 

 and appeals; we look high for the source of assistance 

 and remedial action, to which we think the way lies 

 clear. 



Wo look then to legislative enactment for our 

 remedy. It protects the birds in our cemeteries, and 

 game for sportsmen, who disregard all fear of tres- 

 pass in its pursuit. In many iStates it offers large 

 rewards for the destruction of the noxious birds, whose 

 numbers are small, but whose paid destruction is of 

 evident injury to the farmer. Those who take ad- 

 vantage of the bounty offered, being usually low mis- 

 creants, who care no more for the laws of property 

 than for the lives of the myriads of servicenble birds 

 which fall in common with the proscribed species. — 

 We look to legislative power for the uprooting and 

 extermination of this evil. Let stringent and sum- 

 mary laws be enacted, inflicting fines and penalties. 

 Let the power be put into the hands of ihe farmers 

 to arrest any person found on their premises with a 

 gun and birds in their possession ; aye, let them have 

 the power to take the gun from them as security for 

 the fine or penalty. 



With half the ingenuity which is yeatly expended 

 upon more favorite enactments, the power of offended 

 government might be readily brought to bear upon 

 offenders, by a well contrived system of rewards to 

 discovery and prevention, and punishments for trans- 

 gression. This, united with and enforced by the la- 

 bors of possessors of the soil, and trainers of the young, 

 would soon be effectual in the attainment of our 

 object. 



In concluding these remarks, we hope to be par- 

 doned for again reiterating the importance of the >>ub- 

 ject The injury done by insects is often unseen and 

 unknown, but enormous; the number of their des- 

 troyers is fast decreasing, and can never be renewed; 

 without them we are helpless, and agriculture de- 

 prived of servants and services which can not be re- 

 placed. Bkuent. 



Rochester, JV. Y. 



FBUrr GKOWING IN OREGON, 



Messrs Editors: — I have over one thousaad fruit 

 trees of various kinds, some of which are in bearing 

 and promise well, being thts result of my own labor 

 of three years residence in this territory. Having a 

 somewhat elevated situation of 800 feet above the 

 level of the Wallamett at Salem, and 1000 feet above 

 the level of the sea, surrounded by a valley from ten 

 to thirty miks wide, and from six to nine hundred 

 feet below the highest part of my plantation. Soil 

 red clay loam; subsoil a redish clay. 



As I have been a careful observer of all matters 

 pertaining to horticulture in this territory, it may not 

 be amiss for me to state a few things for the benefit 

 of my fellow horticulturists. Apples, pears, plums, 

 cherries and apricots, have already thown themaelves 

 capable of profitable cultivation ; peaches, grapes, 

 nectarines and gooseberries, furnish an ambiguous re- 

 sult thus far, with an occasional promise of success. 



Of apples we have over 150 varieties in cultiva- 

 tion, the greater portion of which are well known to 

 joa; but there are a few Tarkties highly approved 



with you that are nearly worthless here, among which 

 I will name the Sweet Bougli, while there are others 

 that arc seconii rate with you that are first quality 

 with u<?, among which are the white winter Poarmain 

 and the Wine Sap, the latter, a.s I am infonned, sold 

 last winter for ten cents more ou the pound in San 

 Francisco, than any other variety. 



The mildew is almost the only enemy that the ap- 

 ple has in this country. I'ears are universally pro- 

 ductive, and the fruit large and high flavored, and it 

 is quite likely that the quince, as a stock, will be en- 

 tirely dispensed with here, as our trees on pear stock . 

 bear quite young, and the long dry season perfects 

 the flavor of the fruit, equaling that grown on the 

 quince. 



Plums, like the pear, are very productive, large 

 and delicious, end have no enemies. Curculio and 

 black knot are not known here. Apricots are hardy 

 and productive, promising well. Cherries come up 

 to our best expectations, except the occasional death 

 of a tree, which we attribute to the use of wild 

 stocks. 



Peaches are very uncertain, owing to the curl in 

 the leaf; more than two-thirds of the peach trees in 

 the Wallamett valley suffer every season with this 

 malady, and present to the eye of the beholder, in 

 the month of June, a desolate appearance, destroy- 

 ing the hope of the cultivator almost entirely; but 

 those varieties that escape, produce fine fruit. It is 

 difficult to say what is the cause of this disease or to 

 suggest a remedy. When the Genesee Farmer came 

 to hand, in which a correspondent gave hh experi- 

 ence in nailing the trunks of his trees, I predicted at 

 once that in less than two week, there would be more 

 than 500 pounds of nails used in Oregon in nailing 

 up peach trees, and immediately nailed some myself 

 to try the experiment, but with a very small degree 

 of Buccesgc Wm. Euble. 



Cincinnati, Polk Co., Oregon Ty. 



MAKING AN OSAGE ORANGE HEDGE. 



Editors Gekksee Farmer : — The osage orange 

 grows spontaneously on the Osage River, in Missouri 

 and Kansas, where it forms a small tree, growing to 

 the height of twenty-five feet. J have seen it tiour- 

 ishing north of forty-three degrees of latitude; st'U 

 it is rather tender while young, and liable to kill 

 more or less the first winter; and as it is a thrifty 

 grower, the ends of the branches are often nipped by 

 the extreme cold; yet the bodies of the plants came 

 safely through the frosty ordeal last winter, and they 

 are not likely to have a tougher time of it soon. 



Preparing and Sowing the Skkd. — Tlse seeds are 

 rather hard to start. The best way is to mix thera 

 with earth in the fall, and put them where they will 

 keep frozen through the winter; or if kept dry until 

 spring-, pour hot water on them, and let them stand 

 in a warm place two or three days; then mix them 

 with wet sand, and keep warm. l)o not fear spoiling 

 them with hot water; if you do not scald them they 

 will not sprout. After they have begun to sprout 

 pretty freely they may be planted, which should be 

 done in April. 



Preparing the Seed-Bed — The osage orange is 

 a lover of good living ; so in preparing eilber the 

 seed bed or the hedge row, never fuar of getting the 

 soil too rich. Some prefer planting in a bed and 

 transplanting to the hedge row the next yew, while 



