1877.] 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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Fanner, and, (in account of it.s siiuiilicity, we 

 republish it for what it may be worth. What- 

 ever effect it may have on the cureulio and on 

 those "otlier noxious insects," we confess wo 

 have not much faitli in it as ajxcneral remedy. 

 We certainly could not ('.xpect it to "drive 

 olf " the fiireen tomato worm or the "Colorado 

 potato beetle," for both these insects feed vo- 

 raciously on the tomato vines. Theexpressed 

 juii'e, or an infusion of tomato leaves, woidd, 

 no doubt, repel .some insects, but we don't 

 know what etlect " imdchinj; " could have 

 u|ion any in.sects we know of. tJesides, the 

 authority is too far away, and too little known, 

 to elicit any special conlideiice in it. Still we 

 call the attention of our readers to it, and 

 hope they will make a practical test of it 

 during the current season. An infusion of 

 tomato vines is exitecdinf^ly ollensive to the 

 genus Umnu, and it may, pread venture, be 

 so to some of the subjects of the insect realm. 

 — El). 



A LESSON WORTH LEARNING. 



" The possibility of a >;reat change being in- 

 troduced by very sliijlit beginnings may be 

 iUustratecl l)y a tale which Lockman tells of a 

 vizier, who, having oll'ended his master, was 

 condemned to perpetual captivity in a lofty 

 lower. At night his wife came to wecj) below 

 his window. '( 'ea.se your grief,' said ihc .sage ; 

 'go home for the present, and return hither 

 wlien you have procured a live black beetle, 

 together with a little ijinv [or bidliUo's butter,] 

 tliree clews, one of the linest silk, another of 

 stout pack thread, and another of whip cord ; 

 finally, a stout coil of rope.' When she again 

 came to the foot of the tower, in'ovidetl ac- 

 cording to her husband's demands, he dire<'ted 

 her to touch the liead of the insect with a little 

 of- tlie ijlue, to tie one end of the silk thread 

 around him and to place him on the wall of 

 the tower. Attracted by the smell of the 

 butter, which he conceived to be in store 

 somewhere above him, the beetle etmtinued to 

 ascend till he reached the top, aiul thus put 

 tlie vizier in possession of the end i)f silk 

 thread, who drew up the pack thread by means 

 of the silk, the small cord by means of the 

 pack thread, anil, by means of the cord, a 

 stout rope, capable of sustaining his own 

 weight, and so at last escapeif from the place 

 of his duress." 



Miuiy enterprises in life ; many reformations 

 in morals ; many individual labons might be 

 coaxed along gently in their incipient and pro- 

 gressive stages, by such a gentle, thoughtful, 

 and hopeful procedure as is portrayed in the 

 foregoing extract. 15e careful, be gentle, or 

 you may snap the thread and never be alile to 

 get possession of the cord that leads to the 

 possession of the "stout rop(^" which leads to 

 success, even after you have secured the beetle 

 that convoys to you the silken fdin?. In suc- 

 cessful farming, the same gentle manipula- 

 tions of the soil is neccs.sary. Wlu^i the plant 

 is young, weak and feeble, we nuist guide it 

 and nurture it by the silken Ho.ss, before we 

 can apply the stronger culture tliat corresponds 

 to the pack thread. Atany a plant is destroyed 

 in our eagerness to apply the pack thread to a 

 hasty advance to the cord, and thence to full 

 maturity. But Viefore we can jiossibly avail 

 ourselves of the feeble tenure of the silken 

 liber, it must lie directed towards the desired 

 end, by the operation of a will-power that lies 

 back of threads, cords and ropes— an exercise 

 of tlie immortal mind. 



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HORSE HAY FORK -PATENT IN- 



P'RINGEMENTS. 

 In the case of A. J. Nellis vs. The Ashland 

 Fork ilaiiufacturiug Company, in the Uidted 

 States Circuit Court for the Northern District 

 of Ohio, a decree has lieen entered in favor of 

 the patents, and an injunction issued against 

 the defendants enjoining them from niaking 

 and .selling the Harris Double Harpoon Horse 

 Hay Fork. AVe notice from the (.'ourt records 

 that there are over one hundred sints now 

 pending for the infringement of these patents, 

 against jiarties in the Slate of Ohio. Evi- 

 dently the owners of the patents are deter- 

 imued to protect their rights. 



A CHOLERA CURE. 



"Tincture Opii. 



Tinctin-e Capsici. 



Tincture Khci Co. 



Tinctun^ Menth pip. 



Tincture Cam|ihor. 

 Mix the above in eipial iiarts, etc." 

 Among the many renu'dies published last 

 smnmer for cholera, diarrha'a, bowel com- 

 plaints and other similar forms of dis.scase in- 

 cident to suuuner season, we believe none 

 received a more authoritative endorsement 

 than the above, which is the "corrected 

 formida. " We have been cariying it in our 

 pocketbook for nearly a year, and as it had 

 g<in(^ into pieces the above was all we were 

 able to rescue from the wreck, but that con- 

 tains all the essentials of the mixture. Any 

 intelligent druggist will be able to interpret 

 and furnish the ingredients, and if he cannot 

 it will be an indication that he is not the man 

 to be trusted in the case. Every family should 

 have a bottle of this cholera meilicine in their 

 possession, diuing thesunnuer.sea.son at least. 

 We were not able to preserve the size of the 

 dos(% for that fragment was entirely lost, but 

 we think it was a teaspoonfull ; of course 

 this should be adapted to the ag(^ of the 

 patient, the violence of the disease, and other 

 things contingent thereto. The same circum- 

 stances should al.so govei-n the frecpiency of 

 its repetition. It is generally conceded to be 

 safest to apply remedies in cases of these dis- 

 eases when the first symptoms become mani- 

 fest. In many cases a single dose has been 

 all-sudicient to arrest the disease. 



HOW TO EASE A COUGH. 



A medical work of high authority gives the 

 following advice to invalids and others : 

 " The best method of easing a cough is to re- 

 sist it with all the force of will possible, until 

 accumulation of phlegm becomes greater, thcMi 

 there is something to cough against, and it 

 comes V(u'y nuich easier, and with half tin; 

 coughing. A great deal of hacking and liem- 

 ming and coughing in invalids is purely ner- 

 vous, or the result of mere habit, as is showu 

 liy the freiiuency with which it occurs wlnle 

 the patient is thinking about it, and its com- 

 paritive rarity when he is so much engaged 

 that there is no time to think, or wheu the 

 attention is impelled in another direction." 



We feel that we are able to testify, from 

 long experience, that^there is "sound wLsdom 

 and discretion" iu the above. We do not 

 presume to say that every one can oppose the 

 power of his or her will, successfully, in re- 

 sisting a cough, or that it will be successful at 

 all times, nor yet, with all coughs even by 

 the same individuals. Coughs generally pro- 

 ceed from an inflamed conilition of the bron- 

 chial organs ; from the inhalation of foreign 

 irritating atoms; from inhaling cold draughts 

 of air; and often from a violent or impulsive 

 exercise of the vocal organs, but, perhaps, 

 more freipiently from an inflamed condition 

 of the lungs — their decay, their laceration (ir 

 their collapse ; fiut even in these latter cases, 

 it has been manifest that a cough may be re- 

 sisted, or at least palliated. In our younger 

 days we were intimately acquainted with an 

 intelligent physician predisposed to consimip- 

 fioii, who understood his own case so well, 

 and also his feelile tenure of life,tliat heobsti- 

 nately refused to (ujugh, often under the most 

 violent provocation, and he succeeded in pro- 

 longing that (eiU(r« for ten or fifteen years, if 

 not longer ; and, although he eventually died 

 of that fell disease, yet he never did much 

 coughing. There are many coughs that proceed 

 from bronchial inllannnatiou, and not from a 

 diseased condition of the lungs, as is evident 

 from their long coidinuance — often twenty or 

 thirty years — and if these coughs were re- 

 sisted by the power of the human will, the 

 life of the patient, in many instances, would 

 be prolonged ; lint even in these cases, injudi- 

 cious or impulsive yieldings, only increase 

 the irritation, and inflammatiou may Hnally 

 be driven down into the lungs and end f'atall\". 

 Reader, if you have any will power at all, tri/ it. 



PROTECTION OF USEFUL ANIMALS. 



The following notice, says the JiitUetin X*' 

 yl r/iorieuWwrc, is conspicuously set up in the 

 State forests of France. It would lie well to 

 havesimilar notices posted iu our imblic parks : 



" Hedge Hog — Feeds on niice, small ro- 

 deids, slugs and grubs. Do not kill a hedge 

 bog. 



Toad — A farmer's frii^iid ; destroys '20 to :iO 

 insects pei- hour. Do not kill a toad. 



" Mole — Destroys incessantly grubs, mole 

 crickets, and insects injurious to agriciiture ; 

 no trace of vegetable matter is evei- found in 

 its stomach ; does more good than harm. Do 

 not kill a mole. 



"Cockchafer (bameaton) and his grid) (ver- 

 blanc)— Each insect lays 70 to lUO eggs. Kill 

 the cockchafV^rs. 



" Each deiiartmentof France loses annually 

 thousands of francs by the injuries of insects. 

 Birds are thi^ oidy enemies capable of contend- 

 ing with them. Chililren, do not rob the 

 birds' nests." 



Then follows a list of rewards ofl'ered for 

 the destruction of cockchafers. 



Without deeming it necessary to insert the 

 " list " in this jilace, it is sutficient to know 

 that the French Government expends large 

 sums evei-y year in paying bounties for the 

 gathering and destroying of noxious insects — 

 and especially for the yrtibs of the "cock- 

 chafers," (better known is this ins(U't in its 

 larva state as the " White (muI).") The litrvm 

 of all the E.\MKi,r,i(X)i:x Beetles are white 

 "grub-worms," with black, brown or yellow- 

 ish and glossy heads and feet, and they are 

 usually founci in the earth, or in much de- 

 cayed old wood. They walk very indifferently 

 on a plain surface, liaving but six feet, at- 

 tached to the first three segments of the body, 

 and the hinder parts by far the largest portion 

 of the yrub. Indeed, some of them move on 

 their backs, but the larger part of them move 

 on their sides, and they are always found bent 

 like a crescent, and lying on their sides; and 

 pia'haps there is no kind of iu.sect food that is 

 more grateful to the palate of animals tlian 

 the.se white " grub- worms. " It is said that 

 skunks are very fond of them ; therefore, 

 whatever other adverse qualities skuid<s may 

 ]iossess, we should also say — "Don't kill the 

 skunks." The economy of nature is so elabo- 

 rate iu its details, in reference to the insect 

 world, that we hardly know what wild animals 

 we ought to spare or what to kill, lest we 

 might be killing our friends and sparing our 

 enemies. Perhaps, in a larger sense, all the 

 subjects of the animal kinrjilom are necessary 

 to each other's existence, and hence, also, an- 

 tagonistic to each other; and, the legitimate 

 residls of this antagonism is the normal cqui- 

 libriiiin of that kingdom, and to di.sturb that, 

 is to produc* a redundancy of the one or the 

 other ; wid that is what civilization and the 

 march of improvement have tieeii interposing, 

 iu various ways, from a very early period iu 

 human history. And that is not all ; for, the 

 effects of this distm-bance of the normal equi- 

 librium is likely to continue initil we can dis- 

 cover how to economize the natural, means, or 

 apply the arlifu-ial means, to keep the relations 

 of the animal world intact. 



We question very much whether all the arti- 

 ficial insecticides yet discovered possess a 

 tithe of the .saving potency that exists normal- 

 ly in the domain of nature itself; and even in 

 some of our frantic eflbrls to circmnvent the 

 evils of redundancy we may be but faciUtat- 

 ing its progress. 



Take, for instance, by way of analogy, the 

 construction of a clock — a clock, by way of 

 eminence, that measm'es the seconds, the 

 niiiuif(«, the hours, the ilays, the weeks, the 

 months and the years of time ; that indicates 

 the risings and the settings of the sun and 

 moon ; the ebb and How of the tides ; the 

 meteorological conditions of the weather ; the 

 teniperalure and the humidify of the atmos- 

 phere, and sundry other mechanical compli- 

 cations ; and notice how all the movements 

 necessary to the successful operation of the 

 whole nmst act in universal harmony and be 

 directed towards a legitimate end ; and re- 



