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amliition. For he who succeeds in getting a grape that is as hardy 

 and productive as the Concord, possessing the best qualities of the 

 lona, Delaware and Diana, will become a public benefactor, and will 

 carve his name high. But we who mean business, and grow grapes 

 for our " daily bread," may continue to plant the Concord with full 

 assurance that we will be liberally rewarded with "good crops " and 

 fair prices," 



Mr. A, S. Fuller. — This is a good paper, and I hope it Avill have a 

 place in our annual volume of Transactions. There are a great 

 many who would like some better grape, but as I remarked to my 

 wife this morning at the breakfast table, I don't know at present 

 what we should do without the Concord. As regards the place of 

 planting, I may say that my vines stand on the north-eastern 

 exposure. I apprehend that the idea of the advantage of protection 

 is considerably overrated. 



The Grub Worm. 



Mr. E. S. Stone, AVabash, Indiana. — There is a kind of grub, that 

 is, a large wdiite worm with a brown head, that has destroyed some 

 fields of corn this year and done some injury to meadows, but more 

 especially to the blue grass sod. I can take hold of the grass along 

 the railroad and strip it off just as easily as one can remove a carpet 

 from the floor. What will become of them? Will they do any 

 harm next season ? 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble. — This pest, for the first two years of its life, 

 lies low ; the third year it comes up to the surface, and after that 

 changes into a beetle. There will be no trouble from him next 

 seas<:)n, but possibly a new generation may appear and go on with 

 his evil work. These grubs are such as crows search for, also chickens 

 and hogs, and in this connection I may relate that English farmers 

 once seeing the grass fields dying, laid it to the crows and began a 

 warfiire against them. The event proved the error of their judgment. 



The Mink. 



Mr. A. Ilayford, Canton, Maine, wrote to solicit information in 

 relation to breeding mink, and William Scofield, of iStamford, Ct., is 

 interested in the same subject. 



Mr. A. B. Crandell. — I was recently in correspondence with Mr. 

 L. Stratton, of Grassy Cove, near Crossville, Tennessee, a gentleman 

 who has been to considerable' expense of time and money in studying 



