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th:it the bed smells worse after its roasting than before. 

 Always air beds in the shade, and, if possible, in cool and 

 / t/iti/s. And now, it' any of our attentive housewife- 

 n -adi-rs, and we have not a few, are disposed to reward us 

 for all this advice, let them give us a bed to sleep on, when 

 we next visit them, made of growing feathers, from live 

 air.d healthy geese, carefully picked, well cured, daily shaken 

 up and thoroughly aired ; and if we do not dream that the 

 owner is an angel, it will be because we are too much occu- 

 pied in sound sleeping. 



NAIL UP YOUR BUGS. 



" The words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastened by masters 

 of assemblies." SOLOMON. 



AFTER a great pother about canker worms, peach-tree 

 worms, and other audacious robber-worms; after smoke, 

 salt, tar, and tansy, bands of wool, cups of oil, lime, ashes, 

 and surgery have been set forth as remedies, to the confu- 

 sion of those who have tried them bootlessly, it now appears 

 that #e are about to nail the rascals. The Boston Cultiva- 

 tor, contains an article " On Destroying Insects on Trees," 

 from which we quote : 



" I did not intend to give it publicity until I had fully 

 tested it, but as the ravages are very extensive in the West, 

 I cannot delay giving you the experiment, hoping that 

 some of your western readers may now give it a fair trial 

 and report the result. I will give one case which may 

 it.duce the experiment wherever the evil i^ felt. In conver- 

 sation witli a friend in Newburyport, Dr. Watson, last 

 fall, I mentioned the experiment; he invited me to his 

 garden, where last year a fruit-tree was infested with the 



