caster Co., Pa., saj's: "In May, young insects are 

 easily discerned witli the naked eye, (having grown 

 from the nita deposited in the groove of the wheat 

 grain,) lodged in the bulb of the plant between 

 the radicles and culm, or plumule, in the pupre 

 state, which soon after forms chrysalis, after which, 

 being now in a perfect state, the young fly by 

 means of its ovi p jsitor, escapes through the bulb 

 of the ])lant, nearly even with the surface of the 

 ground. — (See Albany Cultivator for October, 

 1830.) 



German entomologists enumerate over a thou- 

 sand insects that prey upon cereals, at the head of 

 which is tricum, (wheat). We are by no means 

 sure that Sir. Kinzer is entirely correct in his 

 observations. We have, too, hatched out a fly 

 from a seed of wheat, November 8th ; and we are 

 not certain where the mature insects, so common 

 in the wheat of Maryland and Virginia, spend 

 their winters after their maturity. 



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BoxE DrRT AND SppEErnospiiATB OF Lute. — Will you be 

 pleased to inform mo, an<l ollicrs interested, through your 

 excellent paper, whetlicr Bfinc Dust and Superphosphate of 

 Lime are :i.s valnable, as manure, for carrots as for tumeps. 

 Joiix W. Bailey. — I'lattsbiirgh, Jf. Y. 



We have never used Superphosphate of Lime 

 for cttrrot", but think it will be a very good aux- 

 iliary of farm-yard dung, sown broadcast at the 

 time of sowing the seed. We intend using it this 

 summer, and hope our friend will do the same and 

 let us have the result Leave a few rows un- 

 dr3?3ed, by way of comparison, <fec. 



TiiE GoriiER. — Yoi;r correspondent E. M. B., 

 asks information relative to the habits of the 

 "gopher." Could my young fruit trees and gar- 

 den vegetables talk, they would tell him that its 

 habits arc bad enough. They do their mischief 

 principally during the night, and always under 

 ground, rendering it very difScult to capture them. 

 Many persons call our prairie or ground squirrel 

 by the name of go])her. The gopher always works 

 under ground, while the prairie squirrel (which 

 much resembles your eastern chipmunk) does its 

 mischief upon the surface and in the daytime, and, 

 compared with the former, are inoffensive. The 

 gophers became so numerous and troublesome 

 tliat I laid aside all business, and appropriated my 

 services for a time to their especial benefit. Hav- 

 ing selected a quantity of potatoes the size of a 

 walnut, I put a little strychnine in each, filled my 

 coat pockets, took my spade, and started the 

 rounds, opening every fresh mound until I found 

 their road or hole, into which I rolled a potato. 

 The next morning, armed and equipped as before, 

 I paid them another visit, and found that the 

 holes had all been closed up. I again opened 

 them, together with all new mounds, and as be- 

 fore introduced my poisoned potato. I persover- 

 ingly pursued this course for four or five days, 

 since which I have not discovered a sign of one 

 on ray premises. This course has been pursued 



by a correspondent of the Prairie Farmer, with 

 like success. 



A few years since, I was much troubled by 

 rabbits girdling my fruit trees. I cut thin pieces 

 from the sides or base of scrub apples, sprinkled 

 a little strychnine on the fresh side, and at night 

 placed them in the places frequented by my 

 troublesome ^^sitors ; and such was the unerring 

 certainty with which it laid them out, that a 

 neighboring nurseryman tried it, and gathered 

 half a dozen rabbits at a time, the result of a sin- 

 gle night's operation. 



Could I have known of this earlier, it would 

 have saved me many dollars and much perplexity ; 

 and if it will be of service to any of your numer- 

 ous readers, use it. Wm. K Larned. — St. Antho- 

 ny, Minnesota Territory. 



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Garget in Cows. — Will you please to inform 

 Carlton Graves, through the Genesee Farmer, 

 that the garget or pokeweed root operates like a 

 charm, and is all that can be desired as a remedy 

 for the garget in cows, when in a mild form. I 

 have given green root the size and length of a 

 man's finger, mashed fine, as a dose several times. 

 A piece of the root put in the dewlap will have 

 the same eff'ect if the case is not violent. I would 

 recommend that he procure Cole's book on Dis- 

 eases of Domestic Animals. S. B. — Susq. Co., Pa. 

 Joseph Tickner, of Harmony, N. Y., gives the 

 result of forty years' experience as follows : 



I noticed, in your October number, a question 

 from a brother farmer, desiring information in 

 regard to the treatment of garget in cows. Being 

 in possession of the necessary information, I feel 

 bound to make it known for the benefit of your 

 readers. During above forty years experiimce, in 

 which time I have cured many of my own as well 

 as ray neighbour's cows, I have never known it to 

 fail of cm-ing in a single instance. The remedy is 

 simply tliis : Take skokeweed and cut up vour 

 double-handful fine; mix with meal and "feed 

 you cow. One mess will generally efi'ect a cure ; 

 if not, try a second, which I never knew to fail. 



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To Prjtvevt Hogs froji Rootixg. — I wa.s much 

 amused in reading the inquiry in the January 

 number of your paper headed "To prevent Hogs 

 rooting," and was particularly amused by the 

 manner suggested of performing the operation. 

 In the first place, if II. Jennings had taken the 

 trouble to have whittled a grimter's nose down, 

 as he should have done, he would have found the 

 tendons spoken of that support the end of the 

 nose and are attached to the top of it. These 

 diverge towards the eyes, near where the muscles 

 are situated which give the power, lliosc ten- 

 dons are consequently several inches in lengtli, 

 and by severing them at any point between the 

 muscle and end of the nose the object will be 

 effected. The point of a pen-knife is the proper 

 instrument to be used, and there is no necessity of 

 cutting across the nose to accomplish this, as it 

 would require quite a deep gash through the 

 integuments of the nose before the tendons would 

 be cut off by such means. J. H. — Big Stream 

 Point, Yates Co., N. Y. 



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