100 



There was evidence that they had destroyed a great many heads ; 

 and had not the wheat been threshed and cleaned, their iujuries 

 would have been much more extensive. These two cases are the 

 only ones in which I had ever seen or heard of this worm. 



It is, however, not unknown abroad. From plates and accounts 

 given in the Penny Magazine for 1833, Nos. 86 and 90, as well as I 

 can judge, the same insect is described as the Vibrio Tritici, and the 

 different stages of his progress are fully illustrated by plates ; I 

 shall make some extracts from it in the Appendix.* The account is 

 too long to be presented here. The paper says, " the existence of 

 this most extraordinary disease in wheat has been, comparatively 

 speaking, but a very short time known ; and it is only of a very re- 

 cent date that it has attracted the notice of the practical agriculturist 

 in this country." In the county of Kent, Eng., it seems, however, 

 to have been known for some years. 



9. LocusT-RoRER. — Allen C. Metcalf of Lenox, washed his 

 locust trees with spirits of turpentine, and in that way, as he believes, 

 compelled the borer to leave them, after they had made severe rav- 

 ages. The trees, as I saw them, were much perforated, but there 

 were no where any signs of the presence of the worm. 



XII. REPORTS OF FARMS. 



I shall now give a few reports of farms in the country as illustra- 

 tive of the general condition of its husbandry. The numbers are a 

 mere index to the arrangement ; and express no preference of char- 

 acter or condition. 



Farm I. — Wood 60 acres, tillage 30 acres, mowing 80 acres, 

 pasturage 180 acres. At a distance from home 200 acres in pastur- 

 age. Stock — sheep 1000, oxen S, milch cows 6, horses 3. In 

 1837-8, there were raised on this farm mainly for the consumption 



* Appendix Q 



