\(>I.. XXI. NO. 11. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



85 



From llip Farmer's Monthly Visilor. 



MICROSCOPIC. 



Sometime since, I saw in your Visitor a state- 

 lent tliat apple-tree lice were Icfrged animals. Dr. 

 ;. Fisher, of Kennebunk, I believe, was the one 

 ■ho made the discovery. I have a small double 

 lass, that magnifies but 10 lineally, 100 superfi- 

 ially, and of course 1000 in magnitude. 



What is commonly called appletree lice, are 

 ut their hulk or houses, and never move more 

 lan any house. It contains from twenty to forty 

 ggs, which look very much like the pismire's egg, 

 ut 1000 times sm;illor. They begin to hatch out 

 le first of June. After they are out of their shell 

 nd hulk, tliey look much like their eggs. They 

 ave many legs, and eat through the bark into the 

 ood ; and when there are many of them, kill the 

 mb, and sometimes the whole tree. 



Scraping their houses off, and washing with 

 trong lye or lime, soapsuds, or many other things, 

 ill kill them. The best time to examine with a 

 licroscope is a little before sundown, letting the 

 ght strike on what you are observing. 



It is stated in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, that 

 le mite takes five hundred steps in a second of 

 me. I know not what mites they mean ; but the 

 lite on old cheese is a very slow walker for so 

 mall a thing; five steps instead of five hundred, 

 re all he can make out, and his steps are easily 

 ounted. The mite on the outside of figs, and the 



eevil in rye meal, and grain, are about the same 

 ize of those in cheese ; but they have more legs, 

 nd take more steps — perhaps twenty or thirty in a 

 econd of time. This is the extent. They all ap- 

 ear very nmch like cabbage lice, only one thou- 

 and times smaller. 



This same Encyclopedia says also that the gnat 

 r midge moves his wings two thousand times in a 

 econd. Now the heron, and eagle, which weigh 

 bout ten pounds, move their wings but twice a 

 econd — the crow twice — the swallow three or 

 3Ur times, (which weigh about an ounce) — the 

 umble bee forty — the honey bee sixty — the mus- 

 uito one hundred — the gnat about two hundred. 

 The partridge, which is larger than the crow, moves 

 er wings oftener, on account of a heavy body, 

 ompared with her wings — probably ten or twelve 

 imes in a second. So as to bees, they move their 

 Kings faster than flies, because their bodies are 

 heavier in comparison. 



It has been said that every pebble is peopled 

 fith animalculffi ; and that all fluids are filled with 

 hem. I think not so. True, in vinegar and other 

 nucilaginous liquids there are many, and sometimes 

 large as to be seen with the naked eye, but dis- 

 illed vinegar or pure water has none. I have not 

 leen able to discover but two or three kinds in wa- 

 er ; one looks like an eel, another, which is very 

 imall, like a toad or frog. In most flowers two or 

 hree kinds also can be seen ; the smallest is very 

 ike the red lady-bug, or garden spider, only a 

 housand times smaller. You will see the same 

 in rocks, especially where there is new and very 

 ine moss. Their step is not over thirty in a se- 

 :ond. 



I have seen by the solar microscope, a louse 

 jnagnified as large as an o.x ; but in a drop of pure 

 water thus magnified, nothing was to be seen but 

 water, or perhaps a little dust. Therefore I do not 

 believe in these millions of animalculae. Indeed, 

 if there were as many as some pretend, I could see 

 them with " my" microscope, even if were tliey one 



hundred times smaller than the red bug in flow- 

 ers and on the moss of rocks, or the frog-looking 

 creature in water, which is the smallest I have 

 been able to sec. These are sufticionlly minute 

 and curious for me, but some people are like my 

 aunt Sally, who could not think of mediocrity, but 

 every thing was the very biggest, or a " lectle the 

 leetlestshe ever did see," and her last cold was 

 always the worst. 



I wish some one could tell how to destroy the 

 powder bug on vines. I have tried many ways to 

 no effect, except catching them and knocking their 

 brains out. 



The wind was east when I wrote the above. 



H. F. 



most of them having proceeded from a present of 

 sir, which he made to our accomplished country- 

 woman, the Marchioness of Wellesley, and by her 

 to her venerable father, and late father-in-law, both 

 at the time, and one of them now, residents of our 

 city. 



During the whole of our revolutionary struggle, 

 Mr Coke was the firm and consistent friend of 

 America, and from that period to the hour of his 

 death, he was as warmly attached to our country. 

 At Holkhani our countrymen ever found that wel- 

 come, which an English country gentleman knows 

 so well how to give, and now, that he sleeps with 

 his fathers, we feel that this notice is due to his 

 memory. — Baltimore Farmer. 



EARL OF LEICESTER. 



We observe with regret, by the late European 

 news, that the Earl of Leicester died recently in 

 England in the iJIst yrar of his age. This illus- 

 trious man was better known in this country by the 

 name of Mr Coke, of Holkham, a name which he 

 had ennobled while he bore it, by the practice of 

 every virtue which lend a charm to human actions, 

 and dignify man in the walks of life. It is only 

 since the ascension of Queen Victoria to the throne, 

 that Mr Coke would receive title, having refused it 

 from the hands of the late William IV., and we 

 believe also, from those of George IV. ; but when 

 again presented him by the young Queen, the old 

 man could no longer resist a boon coming from the 

 hands of his sovereign, and that sovereign the 

 daughter of his old friend and associate, the Duke 

 of Kent. To have refused under such circumstan- 

 ces, would have been doing a violence to former 

 friendships and the promptings of gallantry, and he 

 consented to have restored, in his own person, that 

 title which, in a former century, had belonged to 

 his forefathers. In receiving this distinguished 

 mark of favor, it was admitted on all hands, that 

 title imparted no dignity to Mr Coke, who as the 

 representative of his county, had won more honor 

 in the House of Commons by his patriotic and gen- 

 erous bearing, than could be conferred by all the 

 titles within the gift of the crown. To be called, 

 and to deserve being called, the Great Commoner 

 of England, vi&a, indeed, enough to fill the mea- 

 sure of any man's ambition. 



But however high this good man stood as a Brit- 

 ish statesman, his claims to public gratitude rested 

 on a more exalted basis — he was, in the broadest 

 sense of the term, an agricultural benefactor. No 

 man ever lived who had done more to advance the 

 cause of enlightened husbandry, or to elevate the 

 character of the tillers of the earth — to him, as 

 much as to any other individual, is England in- 

 debted for the present improved state of her agri- 

 culture. He was not a mere theoretical talker, but 

 an odor, and his own estates are evidences of the 

 truth of what we say. Many portions of those es- 

 tates, which, when they came into his management, 

 were floating beds of sand, have not only been im- 

 proved, but changed in the very texture of their 

 soil. By the addition of clay and 7iiarl, he con- 

 verted thousands of acres of such sands as we have 

 described, into;)ro(/uc(i'i;c loams — lands which fifty 

 years ago, would bring nothing but peas, are now 

 among the best wheat soils in the kingdom. He 

 was, too, among the most zealous improvers of 

 stock, and to his munificence is our country mainly 

 indebted for the introduction, within the last thirty 

 years, of those beautiful Devons, which are now to 

 be found every where over our wide-spread domain, 



Destruction of Moles. — The following recipea 

 fur destroying moles, we extract from an English 

 work by Charles Fothergill, of Salisbury, England. 

 — Amer. Farmer. 



" L Make a paste with powdered hellebore roots, 

 wheat flour, and ground glass ; place it near their 

 holes to eat, and you will soon destroy them. 



"2. Make a mixture of brimstone, rosin, and tur- 

 pentine; put them into a horn with a narrow neck, 

 first enveloping the same in tar ; set fire to the tow 

 thus prepared ; then insert the mouth of the horn 

 into the burrow of the mole, and he will soon be 

 suffocated to death." 



Manure. — Put on your land all th© manure that 

 can be scraped from your premisesi or that you are 

 entitled to from the road. Leave not a particle in 

 the barn-yard. It matters not hci.» coarse or long 

 it is if you can plow it in. All j.ou can get from 

 it before another season, is clear, gain, for it will 

 lose but little more under the ground with a crop 

 over it, than exposed to the action of the sun and 

 rains in the yard. If it cannot be used, place it in 

 heaps and cover it two feet thici.with earth, which 

 will inhale and retain most of jts enriching gases 

 till wanted. — Amer. Agricult. 



Preservation of Grain. — A correspondent of the 

 Farmers' Cabinet says, that "in a late visit to a 

 branch of the Cooper family in New Jersey, he ob- 

 served that the grain of different descriptions was 

 stowed away in large strong iron-bound casks; and 

 in these the wheat, &.C., was preserved for any pe- 

 riod, no matter how long, without fear of the wee- 

 vil, grain-worm, vermin, damp or mouldinesa. The 

 grain is introduced by a funnel through the bung- 

 hole ; and when full the cask is carefully closed, 

 and made air-tight, and kept in that state by occa- 

 sionally driving the hoops. The casks are laid on 

 sleepers so high that a bushel measure can be 

 placed under them, when it is necessary to draw 

 the grain." 



Education is a companion which no misfortune 

 can repress, no clime destroy, no enemy alienate, 

 no despotism enslave — at home a friend, abroad an 

 introduction J in solitude a solace; in society an 

 ornament; it chastens vice; it guides virtue; and 

 is the grace of genius. Without it what is man? 

 A slave. — Selected. 



Frazer says — "I certainly blame no lady who 

 has been accustomed to the ordinary elegancies of 

 life, for refusing to marry a poor man ; but must 

 beg my sweet friends to recollect, that though a 

 man without money is poor, a man with nothing 

 but money, is still poorer." 



