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N. E. FARMER, 



CLOSE OF VOLUME XXII. 



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From the Albany Cultivator. 



CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



The advantages that would be derived not only 

 in an iovividnal, but a national point of view, from 

 a greatly increased culture of all our chnice fruits, 

 is not fully appreciated. The large quantity of 

 animal food consumed by all classes in this coun- 

 try, renders the antiseptic and diluent properties of 

 fruits in temperate and tropical climates, absolute- 

 ly necessary to the promotion and preservation of 

 health. The alarming increase of diseases of the 

 heart, apoplexy, palsy, obstructions of the liver, 

 liinirs, and other vital organs, and the rapid pro- 

 gress and violence. of the inflammations consequent 

 upon these obstructions, are directly or indirectly 

 connected with, and dependent upon, a plethoric 

 or overloaded condition of the blood-vessels — a 

 state of the system which a free use of ripe fruils 

 and vegetables is best calculated to prevent and 

 correct. Physicians, however they may differ in 

 opinion on some subjects, agree on this, that the 

 free use of good ripre fruits, such as the grape, the 

 apple, peach, (Sic , is well calculated to promote 

 and preserve a healthy state of the human system. 

 We have, therefore, not only pecuniary induce- 

 ments to cover our fields and the banks of our riv- 

 ers with the choicest fruits to delight the eye and 

 gratify the taste, but a far higher object — the pro- 

 motion of the health and happiness of our fellow- 

 cteatures. 



Notwithstanding all the efforts that have been 

 made for a number of years past, to advance the 

 culture of the grape and some other fruils — and 

 the success has been very encouraging — there 

 does not appear to be any probabi lity of overstock- 

 ing the markets of the large cities on the sea- 

 board, for a quarter of a century to come. Indeed, 

 if still greater efforts are not made, and far more 

 land employed than has been for this purpose for 

 many years past, the growth of the cities will be 

 greater than the growth of the fruit ; added to 

 which, railroads and steam have opened many new 

 markets, and will continue to do so for years to 

 come. 



The farmers in the interior and to the west, ow- 

 ing to their cheap alluvial soils, find it to their in- 

 terest to supply us with large quantities of grain 

 and less perishable articles than fruits ; and the 

 owners of far more costly land near our large cit- 

 ies and railroads, would find it greatly to their ad- 

 vantage to turn their attention more to the produc- 

 tions of the garden, the vineyard and the orchard, 

 than they have heretofore done. The grape, from 

 its arriving at the bearing state so soon, and con- 

 tinuing to produce a bountiful crop every year 



when well cultivated, for an almost indefinite pe- 

 riod of time, possesses advantages over every other 

 fruit with which I om acquainted ; and hence of 

 late I have given it a decided preference on my 

 place at Croton Point. As fast as iny peach or- 

 chards fail, or show syrnploins of dncay, if the 

 ground is suitable, I occupy it with the grape. A 

 bank well covered with good plants of the Irinbella 

 grape, properly and carefully cultivated, will, 1 am 

 fully percuaded, give larger and more certain divi- 

 dends, in proportion to the amount of capital in- 

 vested, than any other Bank in lite State. 

 Yours, truly, 



R. T. Underhill. 



From the Farmer's Cahiaet. 



BEE MOTH. 



Mr Editor — In the last number of your Cabinet 

 you say that " on examining your beehives in the 

 morning, you have been annoyed by frequently 

 finding on their platfjffn, worms full grown, which 

 had no doubt been hatched from the egg of the 

 Bee-moth. Where did they come from ? Will 

 some of our friends tel] us ?" 



The Bee moth is a nocturnal visiter, and enters 

 the hive afier the bees have retired to rest, and de- 

 posits its egg in the comb, where the insect, when 

 hatched, meets with its proper food, until it arrive* 

 at maturity. It then descends to the bench, and 

 encloses itself by the web which it spins, and 

 passes into the pupa or chrysalis state, before it 

 becomes a fly. The moth-worms, which have 

 lived through the winter, will commence leaving 

 the coinb the last of March and beginning of April, 

 and continue to do so till late in May ; by which 

 time those that came first have become flies, ready 

 to enter the hives and carry on their work of de- 

 struction. These insects pass through all their 

 different changes, from the egg to the fly, during 

 the hot months, in the course of five or six weeks. 

 In 1838, I put some of these worms in a glass jar, 

 on the 9th, 12th, and 14th of April : the flies came 

 out after the 23d of May, Few worms worefound 

 under the hives after this date. 



To mitigate the ravages of the Bee moth, I 

 spread salt on ihe bench below the bee-hive, and 

 keep it there from March to November. If the 

 worm should descend when the salt is damp, it 

 will be so far prostrated as seldom to recover; but 

 if dry, it has very little eff"ect. Frequent atten- 

 tion is still necessary to meet with success in the 

 management of bees. For further information, 1 

 would refer your readers to '' Sevan's Treatise on 

 the Honey Bee." An OcToeENARiAN. 



Preserving Eggs. — I have just read the mode of 

 preserving eggs in the last Cultivator, and a lady 

 at my elbow informs mo that she preserves them as 

 follows, and has never taken up a bad egg, after 

 keeping them all winter; — Put a layer of salt in 

 the bottom of a jar, and stick the eggs into the 

 salt pninl downwards. So proceed with alternate 

 layers of salt and egga till the jar is full. — ^tb. Cult. 



