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THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. 



Vol. I. 



Pliiladclpliia, December 1, 1S36. 



No. 10. 



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THE FARMERS' CABIUET . 



Chester Comity, Fa. Nov. 1836. 

 The Wheat Fly. 



Sir.— In No. 5 of the "Farmers' Cabinet," 

 I observed some remarks on the wheat fly, 

 and a mode or plan for its destruction pointed 

 out; and in conversation with a gentleman 

 on the subject have been informed, that he 

 has pursued the following process for three 

 successive years with uniform success; his 

 wheat having escaped the Fly, when his im- 

 mediate neighbor's crop was much injured 

 by it. If you think the information will be 

 of service to the readers of your paper, please 

 publish it when most convenient. 



He soaked his wheat in clear water, for 

 about twelve hours, and then placed it in a 

 heap on the floor, and pounded uns/«cA;ec? lime 

 so as to pulverize it as finely as convenient, 

 and mixed with a shovel about equal quan- 

 tities of lime and wheat intimately together, 

 and let them remain in a heap about twelve 



hours more, and then sowed the wheat and 

 the small quantity of dust that adhered to 

 it; he observed the egg on the grain, and 

 supposes the heat produced by the water, on 

 the wheat slackening the lime, together with 

 the caustic quality of it, destroyed the embryo 

 of the insect, without injuring the grain. 



J\''ote. — If this process should not uniformly 

 succeed, perhaps strong ley or a decoction of 

 tobacco, or some other substance might be used 

 to destroy the egg without injuring the grain. 



P. 



§lielteriiig; Farm Liands. 



The practice, almost every where prevail- 

 ing in the United States, of removing every 

 tree from the ground, in clearing new land, 

 shews that the importance of affording shel- 

 ter to farms exposed to high winds and bit- 

 ter blasts, is not sufficiently appreciated. 

 When interspersed with stripes or masses of 

 plantation, not only are such lands rendered 

 more congenial to the orrow'th of grass and 

 grain, and the health of pasturing animals, 

 but the local climate is improved. The fact 

 that the climate may be thus improved, has, 

 in many instances, been sufficiently estab- 

 lished. It is, indeed, astonishing how much 

 better cattle thrive in fields, even but moder- 

 ately sheltered, than they do in an open, ex- 

 posed country. In the breeding of cattle, a 

 sheltered farm, or a sheltered corner in a farm, 

 is a thing much prized, as, by affording them 

 protection from the keen winds of spring and 

 autumn, they imiformly feed with more free- 

 dom, and much better than if they were ex- 

 posed. 



The operation of skreen i)lantations, ob- 

 serves Marshall, is not merely that of giving 

 shelter to the animals lodging beneath them; 

 but, likewise, in breaking the uniform cur- 

 rent of the wind — shattering the cutting 

 blasts, and throwing them into eddies; thus 

 meliorating the air to some distance from 

 them. Living trees communicate a degree 

 of actual warmth to the air which envelopes 

 them. Where there is life, there is warmth, 

 not only in animal, but vegetable nature. 

 The severest frost rarely affects the sap of 

 trees. Hence it appears,that trees and shrubs, 

 pnroperly disposed in a bleak situation, tend 

 to improve the lands so situated, in a three- 



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