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tina^uish the grains that confained worms in the 

 maggot, or chrysalis state. 1 also saw in many in- 

 stances the small hole, through which the worm 

 had entered. The eggs or nits precisely similar in 

 appearance, I found also, generally on the cob, 

 where some grains had been shattered off. In 

 both the wheat and the corn, the hole was gene- 

 rally in that softer part of the grain from which 

 the germ or bud proceeds — the part most difTicult 

 to be got at by a parent fly supposed to impregnate 

 the grain. 



These facts coming under my observation, when 

 taken in connection with one of general notoriety, 

 to wit, that the progress, or multiplication of the 

 weevil, is in an increased ratio during the season of 

 its continuance, when not arrested by the hand of 

 the husbandman, go in my humble judgment to 

 prove, that the weevil reproduces its own species 

 in short periods during the warm season — and al- 

 ways most, where they have free access to the 

 grain. To establish my position beyond a doubt, 

 there is only one link wanting in the chain of facts 

 stated — and that is, the actual entry of the young 

 worm hatched from the nit, into the grain. This 

 I did not witness. The extreme smallness of the 

 object, and the weariness to the eye, and to the 

 neck indeed, by a long application of the glass, 

 prevented me from satisfying myself on that point. 

 Yet from the intense exertions of one of those lit- 

 tle creatures, at one spot, and his repeated return 

 to it, I fully embraced the opinion that the worm, 

 the produce of the nit, does thus eat his way 

 through the bran into the grain. If not, these 

 worms must produce some other insect, the im- 

 mensity of whose numbers, about the barn and 

 stack yard, would have attracted attention. 



The importance attached to this theory, if it be 

 the true one, consists in the conviction on the mind 

 of the farmer, that when reaped, his wheat is not 

 materially injured — and that by due vigilance he 

 may secure it from the ra\'ages of its greatest ene- 

 my, the weevil. Three modes of preserving it, 

 obviously present themselves — first, to place it in 

 a situation to exclude the Jly that is on the loing, 

 thereby to prevent the deposite of its eggs. 

 Secondly, by the application of heat, so as to de- 

 stroy the worms in, and the eggs on, the wheat — 

 or thirdly, to koep it in a situation too cool to ad- 

 mit of hatching the eggs, and the growth of the 

 worm. I am, very respectfully, t. .s. 



HORSES. 



Productive Power of the Arabian Blood. 



Tr.mslated for tlie Farmers' Register, from the Journal d\'lgri- 



culture, etc. des Pays Bas. 



In the Arabian horse, is the germ of all the no- 

 ble qualities which distinguish the species. Every 

 known race of horses, remarkable for their excel- 

 lence, owe it exclusively to this stock, and are no- 

 ble only by their affinity to it. The Turkish horse, 

 the Persian horse, the barb, the Egyptian and the 

 Spanish horse, the English, Polish and Russian 

 horses, and those bred in our studs and in the other 

 countries of Europe, are of noble breed, only as a 

 portion more or less abundant of Arab blood flows 

 in their veins. The name of thorough-bred (pur 

 sang,) has been given to the English race horses, 

 only because they are the direct product of Ara- 

 bian sjres and dams, without any mixture of im- 



pure blood. Yet it cannot be denied, that many 

 eastern horses of unknown origin, but of great 

 value, as well as many Turkish stallions and barbs, 

 have greatly contributed to the existence of the 

 races of this kingdom, particularly to that of the 

 present breed of race horses, and that it is, in part, 

 these stallions that have actually introduced the 

 Arabian blood. If, then, the English race horse 

 is called thorough-bred, there is still stronger rea^ 

 son for giving the name of full bred (race pure) 

 horses, to those of our studs, which are the offspring 

 of English thorough-bred mares and Arabian stal- 

 lions. 



Of several races having for their common origin, 

 the Arabian horse, that, whose qualities shall ap- 

 proximate the nearest to the qualities of its orien- 

 tal ancestors, will alone be able claim a merit, 

 superior to that of the others: in the .same manner 

 also, the reproductive power of one of these races, 

 will diminish in proportion to the deterioration it 

 shall have suffered from the influence of the coun- 

 try, and of the attention it has received, whatever, 

 in other respects, may be the purity of its origin. 

 Of this the stock of thorough-bred English horses, 

 is a present proof. 



We do not design to enter upon a long research 

 into the causes, which give to the Arabian horse, 

 the advantages which distinguish him from all other 

 horses in the world; we will only say, that if we 

 are to judge of him merely from his performances, 

 this horse ow-es tlie superiority of his form and his 

 qualities to the cares of which he is the object, to 

 the climate and the country in which he lives, and 

 above all, to the scrupulous attention, and the per- 

 severance which the Arabians employ in breeding 

 only from the best stocks ; and, finally, to the com- 

 plete existence of privations, and to the nomadic 

 habits to which he is subjected. It is by this 

 perpetual succession of the same management and 

 the same food, by this same absence of every spe- 

 cies of domestic or servile labor, that the Arabian 

 horse has become, like his master, a true child of 

 the desert; and has succeeded in making docility, 

 temperance, speed and durability, qualities in some 

 sort, inherent in his being. Such, also, are cer- 

 tainly the causes to which we should attribute the 

 fidelity with which, in his deserts, he transmits and 

 preserves his superior form and qualities. We are 

 the more convinced of the correctness of this opin- 

 ion, since, as soon as he has left the arid soil of his 

 birth, we see him undergo modifications more or 

 less distinct, and since, we find in a great measure, 

 the forms and qualities which are peculiar to him 

 in the horses of other nations of Africa and Asia, 

 which lead a life similar to that of the Arabs, and 

 which, like them, inhabit a burning climate, and 

 make as exclusive a use of the noble animal of 

 which we speak. This similarity of forms, of 

 vigor, durability and activity, is particularly re- 

 markable in the horses of Egypt, Barbara, Tur- 

 comania and Kurdistan. 



It is then with justice, that the excellence of the 

 different breeds of horses in other countries is de- 

 termined by their more or less immediate origin 

 from the Arabian blood: the beauty, force , bottom, 

 and activity of each of these, is dependent on the 

 same degrees of propinquity, as well as on the 

 more or less decided degeneration, which the blood 

 of this precious stock may have suffered from too 

 great a difference of treatment and climate. Hence 

 it follows, necessarily, that the more nearly a breed 



