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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Oct. 



males, who would enter upon their duties with 

 some probability of permanency. Then there are 

 tne thousands of district schools, which are fast 

 changing from the hands of college boys, to the 

 "milder influences" of the gentler sex. If your 

 daughter has a decided taste for music, or any or- 

 namental acquirement, assist her to appreciate 

 the gift which Heaven has oflfered her. Make 

 her excel in something which the world deems ex- 

 cellent, and her superior attainment will always 

 command respect, and the means of honorable 

 subsistence. 



But there are many who cannot afford the 

 means, thus to qualify their daughters for teach 

 ers. What shall they do ? I answer, believe that 

 labor is honorable, and teach them a trade, or 

 manual occupation of some kind. I have never 

 chanced to live in any place, where dressmakers 

 and milliners did not keep the ladies of the vil 

 lage in complete subjection, dealing out their fa 

 vers of dress-fitting and bonnet-trimming as if 

 they were pearls and diamonds. I venture to say, 

 sir, to you Avho are reading this paper, tliat you 

 can build a forty-foot barn in less time, than your 

 wife and daughters can procure their winter hats. 

 Teach every young lady to cut and make her own 

 dresses, and ir you go further, and educate her to 

 the trade, her support in life is secured. The 

 printing-offices, the counting-rooms of shops, the 

 manufacturing establishments of various kinds, 

 are furnishing respectable employment to females, 

 and gradually the "area of freedom'' for woman's 

 labor and talent, is enlarging everywhere in New 

 England. T!io means of education have not yet 

 been supplied to boys and girls alike. Even Bos- 

 ton, I believe, which affords to every boy, at the 

 public cost, a four years' course in a Latin or 

 High school, gives to girls as an equivalent, only 

 one additional year in the grammar schools. 



New England has her colleges — her Harvards, 

 her Yales, iier Dartmouths, for boys, but nothing 

 of the kind for girls. But these wants will soon 

 be met. Horace Mann, whose opinion is entitled 

 in this matter to higher authority, perhaps, than 

 any other individual in this country, has accepted 

 the Presidency of a college in Ohio, where the 

 sexes enjoy o<[ual advantages of instruction. 



The want of the means to give to girls, at the 

 public expen? %the same thorough and systematic 

 education as !)oys are receiving at our colleges, is 

 the great defect in our New England system of in- 

 struction. Notwithstanding this want of oppor- 

 tunity for e'Uication, a great share of our best 

 writing of a literary oharaetor, both in books and 

 magazines, is from the pens of ladie8,and ho who 

 doubts the capacity of the better-half of creation, 

 for any literary labor, deserves to have his ears 

 pulled by Fanny Fern, and to be classed among 

 slave-catchers in Mrs. tttowe's next edition of Un- 



cle Tom's Cabin. Education for all, according to 

 the capacity of each, is the true law of love and of 

 progress. 



Exeter, N. H., Sept., 1854. 



THE LOCUST TREE BOREE. 



The locust trees, in and around Cleveland, have 

 for the last few years suffered greatly from this 

 insect, many of them being killed, and all being 

 more or less disfigured ; young trees especially 

 are exposed t» their attacks. It is the Clytus 

 flexuosus of Fabricius. In its perfect or image 

 state, it is a beautiful beetle about three-quarters 

 of an inch in length ; the males rather smaller. — 

 The color is a velvety black with transverse yellow 

 bands, three on the head, four on the thorax, and 

 six on the wing covers, the third being bent in the 

 form of a W. The legs are reddish, and the an- 

 tennae dark brown. In the early part of Septem- 

 ber they come forth, and during that month are 

 to be found in great numbers on the flower of the 

 Uolden rod, on the Cuyahoga flats, under the Uni- 

 versity heights. 1 have seen them in hundreds feed- 

 ing on the pollen of this plant. They are also to 

 be seen coming up and down the trunks of the lo- 

 cust trees, singly, in pursuit of their mates or rivals, 

 or more commonly paired. The female lays little 

 clusters of seven or eight white eggs, in the cleft of 

 the bark. In a short time they are hatched, and the 

 little grub immediately begins to eat into the soft 

 bark and wood. Their furrows are winding, gen- 

 erally in an upward direction yet, sometimes, I 

 have seen holes bored entirely through the trunk 

 of small trees. In the winter they become torpid, 

 but the warmth of spring awakens them to re- 

 new the work of devastation, which they make 

 known by the saw dust dropped from their holes. 



A little trouble on the part of the owners of 

 shade ti-ees, would to a great extent protect them 

 from the ravages of this insect ; during the time 

 of pairing, they are easily caught by hand and 

 destroyed, and can be done by children, thus hin- 

 dering the deposition of eggs. As a preventative 

 also, the trunk and larger branches of the trees, 

 in the early part of September, should be covered 

 with a thick coat of white-wash, well worked in- 

 to the cracks of the bark. This should l)e done 

 before the beetle begins to depositeits eggs, and if 

 repeated every season, it will take care and not^ en- 

 trust its property to a bed of lime, as it would'not 

 thrive on so caustic a diet. 



The congeners of the Clytus are numerous, and 

 inhabit many of our forest trees, such as the Ma- 

 ple, Ash, Hickory, Thorn, &c. Some attack the 

 fallen, or cut timber. Their greatest enemy is 

 the Wood-pecker who destroys immense numbers. 

 — Ohio Farmer. 



A Seed Farmer. — An honest son of Erin, who 

 had saved money enough by his industry to pur- 

 chase a small farm, undertook to manage it him- 

 self. He aocordiiigly bouglit his seeds at the seed 

 store, and planted them all done up in papers- 

 just as they came from the store. A bystander 

 who observed him, began to laugh at him, and 

 told him he was doing wrong. "Ah, let me alone 

 for that," said Pat, "I am making a seed garden ; 

 did ye never see seeds grow all papered and la- 

 belled jist as they sell them in the shopV 



