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will draw. This saves much la- 

 bour in packing the hay — requires 

 no ladders — and no ropes ; and a 

 load is pitched in and prepared for 

 removal in much less time. The 

 frame is laid upon the axle-trees, 

 and secured to them by the same: 

 pins or fastening which confine the 

 ordinary cart or waggon body. It 

 is easily changed when occasion 

 may require. It is also well cal- 

 culated for the removal of brush, 

 or any other light article. 



CATERPILLAR, a worm that 

 feeds on leaves and fruits. These 

 insects differ in colour and size ac- 

 cording to their situation, and ac- 

 cording to the different matters on 

 which they feed. The principal 

 inconvenience the farmer meets 

 with from caterpillars, is the dam- 

 age they do to his orchard. A 

 hairy kind of caterpillars build 

 their nests on apple trees in May, 

 and are gone entirely in June,about 

 the summer solstice. But they 

 feed so industriously on the leaves, 

 as to destroy a great part of them, 

 if they be not timely prevented. — 

 As they are far less mischievous 

 than the canker worm, so they are 

 more easily subdued. Some de- 

 stroy them by firing gun-powder at 

 their nests. The same may be ef- 

 fected with a match of brimstone 

 on the end of a pole. 



Nests which have been neglect- 

 ed till the insects have forsaken 

 them should be destroyed. A nest 

 will be found to contain several of 

 the insects in a chrysalis state. 



The Hon. Timothy Pickering,in 

 a letter to the Corresponding Sec- 

 retary of the Massachusetts Agri- 



cultural Society, has recommended 

 an instrument, which be has found 

 simple and more convenient than 

 any he had used for the destruction 

 of caterpillars. It is made by in- 

 serting some hog's bristles between 

 a twisted wire, in such manner as 

 to form a cylindrical brush, which 

 will present bristles on every side. 

 This is attached to a pole of such 

 length as the trees may require,and 

 the caterpillars are brought down 

 by it, and then crushed. 



It is affirmed that caterpillars, 

 and other insects, which infest our 

 fruit trees may be destroyed by 

 casting over the tree a few hand- 

 fuls of ashes, in the morning before 

 the dew is dissipated from the foil- 

 age, or after a shower of rain. — 

 The former the preferable time. 



A strong white-wash of fresh 

 stone lime, applied by the means 

 of a mop, or sponge, fixed to the 

 end of a pole, has by some been re- 

 commended. Spirits of turpentine, 

 or a little oil of any kind, particu- 

 larly blubber oil, are likewise fatal 

 to these insects. But, perhaps,the 

 most effectual remedy is the handy 

 by which the nests may easily be 

 removed at an early stage, but if 

 this be neglected, it is thought that 

 the next best remedy is that men- 

 tioned above, communicated by 

 Col. Pickering, an excellent prac- 

 tical as well as scientific farmer. — 

 In applying either of these reme- 

 dies care must be taken to choose 

 that part of the day, when the ca- 

 terpillars are in the nests. They 

 rarely quit it till 9 o'clock, and gen- 

 erally return to it again about 12. 



It is said that caterpillars will 



