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AND IIORTIOULTURAL REGISTE 



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PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH BRECK & CO., NO. 52 NORTH MARKET STREET, (Aobiodltoqai WAu.Hooa..)-ALLEN PUTNAM, EDITOR. 



VOL.. X\I.] 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 3J, 1843. 



N. E. FARMER, 



INSECT AND WORM DESTROYER. 



Of tlie value of the article described below, as 

 , worm and bug destroyer, we have no knowledge ; 

 ut the fact that it has, unsolicited, been sent us 

 'or trial, with the understanding that we are to 

 itnte.its results just as we shall find them, is pro- 

 luuiptivo evidence that it will prove serviceable. 

 We give publicity to the letter and the directions, 

 n order that any persons who may be disposed, on 

 .heir own judgment, to make trial of this now ar- 

 iclo, may know where to get it, and how to apply 

 in advance of our trial. We should not take 

 his course, but for the almost certainty that we 

 lannot test and make known the results of our trial 

 intil it will be too late for others to send for and 

 ise the article for their early vines this season. 

 >Ve do not recommend it, nor will Messrs. Breck 

 si Co. obtain it on thei.r own account, until its ef- 

 ects have been witnes.':ed. But we are willing to 

 id any pfrson in obtaining it who may be inclined 

 o moke trial of it on the strength of Mr Dey's let- 

 ler arid directions or card. — Ed. N. F. F. 



„Veio York, May 20, 1843. 



Mr Putnam — Sir — I have shipped one-quarter 

 >arrel of the Itiser.t and Jl'orm Destroyer for you, 

 ind another for Messrs. Breck & Co. 



I ask you to accept of these, with a view that 

 'on shall vrperinunt tvith them, and see whether 

 Ihe article will be equally efficient in the destruc- 

 lion of bugs and worms with you as it is with us. 

 Mere accident brought about the discovery, and if 

 ray conjectures as to the extent of its efficacy arc 

 sorrect. I think it will prove among the greatest 

 oles^ings to the farjner and gardener, which liave 

 Been brought to light in these days. 



Ask Mr Breck to try the article, and if it proves 

 •atisfactory, ho may advertise it for sale as agent, 

 und I will send to him any quantity he may order. 

 In haste, respectfully, 



A. DEY. 



43 Liberty St., Mw York. 



The following printed card accompanied the 

 above letter : 



I Insect and Worm Destroyer, 



A powder poison was discovcired the last year, 

 which will destroy bugs, flit's, worms, and animal- 

 culae of every description that infest cucumber, 

 melon, and other vines. It was tried with entire 

 [success last year on cucumber and melon vines, 

 with only one application, and that witliout any in- 

 Jury to the vines. The experiment was made by 

 putting a small quantity of the powder poison into 

 la sieve, then holding it over the hill and giving it 

 one blow with the hand ; a portion of the bugs 

 took Itight immediately, and next morning the 

 groimd was covered with the dead, which had ap- 

 parently come oui of the earth. It is a warranted 

 article, and it it does not answer on vines, the 

 money will bo returned. It is believed to be a 

 specific remedy against insects of every descrip- 

 tion, and will destroy those that infest shrubs, flow- 



ers and plants, cabbages, turnips, and vegetables 

 of every description, the worm which destroys the 

 corn in the ground, that infests the peach and plum 

 tree, the Hessian fly ; and in fact it is certain 

 death to any insect or worm with which it comes 

 in contact and at the same time will not injure 

 vegetation. 



It is made by the Lodi Manufacturing Company, 

 and may bo had at their factory on the llackcnsack 

 river, or at the office of the company, No. 43 Lib- 

 erty street. New York city. The price of one bar- 

 rel, $'2; half barrel, §1 50; quarter barrel, if\ — 

 delivered on board any vessel in the city of New 

 York free of expense. 



For the N. E. Farmer. 



SHEEP DESTROYERS OF THE CANKER 

 WORM. 



Mu EriTOR — Permit me, through the medium 

 of'your paper, to tell something worth knowing. 

 A butcher in Brighton, put his sheep into an or- 

 chard, and, while the next orchard, separated from 

 his only by a stone wall, w;a8 infested with canker- 

 worms, his had none. There is, probably, an odor 

 to sheep either so offensive that the canker-worms 

 are driven away by it, or perhaps it is a deadly 

 poison to them. 



Would it not be a good plan for those whoso or- 

 chards are infested in this way, to turn sheep into 

 them to pasture, and thus save their fruit.' 



May 23, 1843. A. 



We know not the writer of the above, and of 

 course know not how far to consider the statements 

 in it as correct. If it be a statement of facts, the 

 information given may prove valuable to many far- 

 mers. Young and thrifty orchards generally, 

 would sufl'er from being put down to pasturage, 

 but perhaps the harm would be less from this than 

 the canker worms inflict. There is some difficulty 

 in seeing how a small flock of sheep, or as many 

 sheep only as could get a living in the orchard, 

 should be sufficient to kill by their feet all the 

 worms of an orchard ; but they would in this way 

 kill many at the time of their descent from the 

 tree, and this we should suppose. the cause of the 

 orchard escaping their depredations, rather than 

 any thing poisonous to them about the sheep. But 

 perhaps the conjectures of " A." are correct. — Ed. 

 N. E. F. 



Jin Example for the Girls. — Miss Elizabeth Gun- 

 ning, of Michigan, a young lady of high respecta- 

 bility, and daughter of a distinguished citizen, late- 

 ly spun one hundred knots of fine run good woollen 

 yarn, and reeled eighty knots, all in one day, be- 

 tween daylight and dark. That is better than 

 spinning street yarn. — Mlchitran pap. 



Education is a better safeguard for liberty than 

 a standing army. If we retrench the pay of the 

 schoolmaster, we must raise the wages of the re- 

 cruiting sergeant. — Selected. 



GRAFTING ON THE MOUNTAIN ASH. 



It is well known that the Mountain Ash (Sorbiia 

 Americana,) is one of the most beautiful ornamen- 

 tal trees, native in the Canadasand the mott north- 

 ern part of the United Slates, and that it is much 

 cultivated for planting in grounds and the public 

 avenues in many places where less liardv trccij 

 cannot tlirivc. It is also well known that in thoso 

 districts where the mountain ash thrives best, it 

 has been found very diflicult to propagate and 

 bring to maturity the apple and pear, of which tho 

 country bordering on the 45th degree of latitude 

 in Maine and the Canadas, may serve as an exam- 

 ple. It ie now found that this beautiful tree may 

 be converted to a still more useful purpose than 

 that of a mere ornament, viz. that of stocks for tho 

 propagation of the apple and pear, for which it 

 has been proved to be admirably adapted. 



At a late meeting of the London Horticultural 

 Society, a communication was received from Mr 

 liornliy, who has been residing in Switzerland 

 stating that the grafting of pears on the ash was 

 there generally practiced, and that on some of tlie 

 high plateaus of the mountains, where the climate 

 and soil forbid the natural growth of the apple or 

 the pear, they were now grown with perfect sue- 

 cess, " the efiect being to retard the blossoms and 

 give vigor to the constitution." The flesh or fla- 

 vor of the fruit was not at all affected ; and tho 

 practice was successful whether budding or graft- 

 ing was adopted. It was found necessary that no 

 shoots which the stock might make the first year 

 should be taken off, but afterwards all such growth 

 must be cut away, and the graft alone remain. 



Mr Thompson, gardener to the Socisty, stated in 

 reference to this communication, that the mountain 

 ash was one of the stocks on which pears were 

 grafted in tho Society's garden. As the pear graft 

 increases faster than the ash stock, he inferred that 

 the trees could not be as long-lived as the natural 

 pear tree ; still, as the mountain ash is much har- 

 dier than the quince, less liable to be attacked by 

 insects, and would thrive in almost any soil, it 

 might be advantageously used in many situations. 

 — Maine Cult. 



Rich and Poor — Every man is rich or poor, ac- 

 cording to the proportion between hia desires and 

 enjoyments. Of riches, as of every thing else, 

 the hope is more than the enjoyment: while we 

 consider them as the means, to be used at some 

 future time for the attainment of felicity, ardor af- 

 ter them secures us from weariness of ourselves ; 

 but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acqui- 

 sitions, than we find them insufficient to fill up the 

 vacancies of life. Nature makes us poor only when 

 we want necessaries; but custom gives the name 

 of porerty to the want of superfluities. It is a 

 great privilege of poverty, to be healthy without 

 physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from 

 tho bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy 

 arc compelled to procure by the help of art. Pros- 

 perity is too apt to prevent us from examining our 

 conduct; but as adversity leads ns to think proper- 

 ly of our state, it is most beneficial to us. — Johnson, 



