NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Borer. 



Cocoon. 



Pupa state. 



THE PEACH TREE BORER. 



uEgeria eiitiosa. 



We have recently published some articles on 

 the peach tree borer and the mode of destroying 

 it. We now give our readers a representation of 

 it in its different stages, with a description; and 

 we hope that all who have peach trees will exam- 

 ine them thoroughly, and not allow an insect to 

 which they have easy access, and which may be 

 prevented from its operations by timely care, or ar- 

 rested with facility in its course of destruction, to 

 destroy beautiful flourishing trees that yield one of 

 our most luscious fruits. 



The perfect insect resembles a wasp. The sex- 

 es differ widely. The body of both is mostly steel 

 blue; the wings of the male are transparent, bor- 

 dered and mixed with the same blue color. The 

 fore wings of the female are blue and opaque; the 

 hind vvings like those of the male. Abroad orange 

 bslt in the middle of the abdomen. During the 

 summer, the eggs, of a dirty white hue, and scarce- 

 ly perceptible to the naked eye, are laid on the 

 tree, at or very near the surface of the ground, in 

 little punctures, and covered with greenish slime. 

 In a few days they hatch, and the young, whitish 



TO DESTROY INSECTS. 



One of the most convenient and effectual modes 

 of destroying numerous insects of various kinds, 

 among fruits, is to hang among the trees and l)ush- 

 es transparent bottles, filled two-thirds or three- 

 quarters full of water sweetened with molasses. 

 Insects of almost evey description will enter these 

 bottles and be drowned. When they become full, 

 empty them, and renew the sweetened water. 



Pitchers, mugs, and other similar vessels, filled 

 one-half or two-thirds full of sweetened water, and 

 hung in the trees obliquely, or as they will natu- 

 rally hang by the handle, will answer the same 

 purpose. When many of these vessels are hung 

 in a fruit garden near the house, flies and other in- 

 sects become scarce in the house, in consequence 

 of the vast numbers destroyed in this way. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



Patent Office Report. — We have received the 

 second part of this report, which is on the subject 

 of agriculture. It contains an account of the pro- 

 gress of agriculture in different sections of the 

 Union, tables of statistics, and a large amount of 

 valuable practical matter. As it has been prepared 

 by Dr. Lee, who is well known for his zeal and in- 

 telligence in this cause, it may well be supposed 

 that this is much superior to any previous reports 

 on this subject, which have too often been made 

 up of a large promiscuous mass of matter, without 

 the exercise of a sound judgment as to its value. 



The Complete Fruit and Kitchen Garden 

 contains a large amount of valuable matter in a 

 small space, and at a low price. Hotchkiss & Co., 

 Boston. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



We have received of Capt. Amos Perry, South 

 Natick, some sweet apples, of a moderate size, yel- 

 worms eat through the bark, and girdle the tree,l j^^j^j^ ^^^^3^^^ Pj,,or. The quality is very good, and 

 passing between the bark and sap wood, eating ^^^^ ^^^^ ^.^U ^^ ^^ not know the name. 



both. 



Some observers of this insect say that when near- 

 ly a year old, they make their cocoons, usually be- 

 low the surface, and soon change to the pupa state, 

 and shortly come forth in the winged state as rep- 

 resented in the cut. This insect prevails to a 

 great extent, especially in the old Stales, and is ve- 

 ry destructive when great care is not taken to pre- 

 vent their increase or destroy them. 



In a late number of our paper, a correspondent 

 remarks that the borer stays in the tree the second 

 year. Perhaps this is the case with those that 

 hatch late, while those that hatch early may come 

 to the perfect state the second year. They are 

 found of various sizes, through the season. 



t^^ A young man who has recently taken e 

 wife, says he did not find it half as hard to get mar 

 ried as he did to buy the furniture. 



Of Mr. Bowen Harrington, Lexington, Baldwin 

 and other apples, very fresh and excellent for the 

 season, that were kept on a board, in a barn cellar, 

 exposed to the air ever since they were taken from 

 the trees. 



Rye Flour, when made into good light bread and 

 allowed a (lay or two to ripen, is very nutritious 

 and wholesome. Rye flour more nearly resembles 

 wheaten flour in its composition than any other; it 

 has, however, more of certain gummy and sugary 

 substances, which make it tenacious, and also im- 

 part a sweetish taste. All grains and roots which 

 liave much starch in them undergo a great change 

 in their chemical composition by baking — flour be- 

 comes more nutritious, and more easily digestible, 

 because more soluble. This is also the case with 

 flour; that is, the starch, gluten and sugar of po- 

 tatoes, when baked, or what is :>till better, when 

 roasted in the hot embers of asi old-fasliioned larm- 

 lio'jse fire. — Amcricc/i Avrini'lvriat. 



