No. 4. JVewcaslIe Co. Ag. Society. — To preserve Peach Trees. 



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This will effectually kill both the larvae, or 

 worms, and the egg's. 



Proposals have been made to me to pre- 

 pare another edition of my Treatise, with 

 figures. I am therefore very desirous of 

 obtaining the means for completing the his- 

 tory of two or three destructive insects no- 

 ticed in the work. Permit me to ask your 

 attention, and that of your correspondents, 

 to the insect that bores in the pith of the 

 locust tree, and causes the swellings of the 

 young brandies, described on page 295 of 

 my Treatise ; and also to the wheat cater- 

 pillar, of which a very imperfect account, 

 extracted from various agricultural papers, 

 is given on pages 445 to 457, of my work. 

 My official duties in the University at Cam- 

 bridge, have been such for some time past, 

 as to deprive me of that leisure which the 

 successful study of our destructive insects 

 demands. I must therefore rely upon those 

 of my agricultural and scientific correspond- 

 ents who are interested in such subjects, to 

 furnish me with such specimens and facts 

 as are necessary to make another edition of 

 this book more complete and useful than the 

 former one has been. 



In the hope that this appeal and this com- 

 munication will be favourably received, I 

 remain, very truly. 



Your obliged friend, 

 Thaddeus William Harris. 



Newcastle County Agricultural Society. 



At the eleventh annual meeting of the 

 Agricultural Society of Newcastle County, 

 held at John Hall's Hotel, Wilmington, Oc- 

 tober 15th, 1846, John C. Clark was called 

 to the chair; and John W. Andrews ap- 

 pointed Secretary. 



A resignation was received and read, 

 from James Canby, declining to be re-elect- 

 ed president of this Society, also one from 

 James Webb, declining to be re-elected re- 

 cording secretary, both of which were ac- 

 cepted. 



The following gentlemen were then duly 

 elected officers for the ensuing year: 



President — John C. Clark, 



Vice Presidents — Joseph Carr, John H. 

 Price, James J. Brindley, M. B. Ocheltree, 

 Rathmell Wilson, Giles Lambson, Philip 

 Reybold, William Rothwell, John Jones, 

 George Tybout. 



Cor. Secretary — Dr. J. W. Thomson. 



Rec. Secretary — Bryan Jackson. 



IVeasitrer — James Canby. 



Counsellor — Edward W. Gilpin. 



Dirctors — Anthony Higgrins, Samuel Can- 

 by, Z. B. Glazier, John W. Andrews, Dr. 

 R. M'Cabe, Richard Jackson, William Ro- 



binson, Henry Latimer, James N. Cleland, 

 Henry Du Pont, J. S. H. Boies, Jesse Gregg, 

 Philip Reybold, Jr., Wm. Tatnall, Wm. S. 

 Bouldin, John Higgins, Francis Sawdon, 

 Edward T. Bollah. 



On motion. Resolved, that the Horticultu- 

 ral Society be hereafter separated from this 

 Society, and that it be recommended to form 

 a Horticultural Society, and that the exhi- 

 bition of manufactured articles be at the 

 same time. 



On motion. Resolved, That this meeting 

 will hold its next annual exhibition at the 

 grove by Hare's Corner, and it is also re- 

 commended that the meeting in 1848 be 

 held at the Brandywine Springs, in 1849 at 

 St. Georges, and in 1850 at Newark. 



The Horticultural Society having been 

 separated from the Agricultural Society, it 

 was 



Resolved, That it is expedient to hold the 

 exhibitions of the Agricultural Society some 

 four weeks later than they have been form- 

 erly held ; say about the second week of 

 October. 



JjHN C. Clark, President, 



John W. Andrews, Sec. 



For the FarnierB' Cabinet. 

 To Preserve Peach Trees. 



To THE Editor, — In the Cabinet of Au- 

 gust 15th, is a letter that was read at a late 

 meeting of the Farmers' Club, in New York, 

 concerning the mischief done to peach trees 

 by insects, and the way to prevent their rav- 

 ages. I have now peach trees full of fruit 

 in my garden, that were recovered by the 

 free use of quick lime around the root, after 

 having laid them bare for some distance 

 around the tree. 



A friend informs me that he has saved a 

 fine Nectarine tree, by pouring strong to- 

 bacco juice, boiling hot, around the roots, 

 laid bare, and sand put around the tree in- 

 stead of ■ the earth that was taken out. 

 These trees never bote until they were 

 treated in this way; the leaves were yellow 

 and apparently full of insects, and finally 

 all dropped off". 



Yours, &c., 



Louis S. Gilliams. 



St. Mary's co., Md., Sep. 3rd, 184G. 



Cotton in Turkey. — The Sultan of all 

 the Turkeys has resolved upon an extensive 

 experiment in the cultivation of cotton in 

 his Asiatic dominions. Dr. Davis and Dr^ 

 Smith, both of South Carolina, have already 

 departed for Constantinople, to make the 

 experiments in the service of the Sultan. — 

 Ledger. 



