104 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



farm carts !ind carriag-es will do more good than ever has been done by 

 prizes for fast trotting, fat hogs, or big cabbage-heads. 



(4.) I like your idea. Why not develop it ? 



(5.) Oil, may that good time soon come ! It may be hastened, if we who 

 have had the scales removed from our own eyes keep diligently trying to 

 remove them from those of others who are still blind to their own interest. 



Peach Trees and Tanzy. 



Mr. D. M. Fisher, Arch Spring, B'air Co., Pa., dispu'cs the position of 

 Mr. Kohlei-, of Missouri, about tanzy being a preventive of borers and 

 curl-leaf in peach trees. ^Mr. F. says : 



" I would say that I. have tried the remedy thorougldy, and in no case 

 has it proved to be a prevent ve of either. I 'have peach trees standing 

 amcmg the tanzy dead and dry. I examine my trees annually, and some- 

 times oftener, and have alwaj's found the boreis as plenty where the trees 

 were surrounded by tanzy as anj where else^ and the curled leaf is just 

 found the same as elsewhere." 



This gives both sides of the question. Jlr. K. thinks tanzy useful. Dr. 

 Trimble thought the idea ridiculous, and Mr. Fisher says that he has fully 

 satisfied himself by actual trial. 



Do Birds Eat Strawberries ? 



Mr. Fisher also settles this question by the following statement. He 

 also tells us how to cheaply p otect the fruit from the birds. He says : 



" Yo 1 old strawberry growers may laugh at what I am about to write, 

 but laughing in New York will not hurt in Pennsylvania. Having planted 

 a bed of Triomphe de Gauds, and being quite pi'ond of tlieii- bright appear- 

 ance, I was depending on them for a number of delicious messus, when lo, 

 the robins and cherry-birds began to pick off all those that had the least 

 appearance of coloring. After they were gone, tiiey coniinenced on the 

 green ones. Being determined to outdo the birds, I took newspapers, one 

 for each hill, and with small stones and sticks I laid the edges of the paper 

 tight to the ground and saved the crop. It improved the fiavor of the 

 berries very much by being shaded. In dry weather bits of paper will 

 answer Iirst-rate to keep the birds off the ground. 



The New Desiructive Caterpillars, and How to Kill Them. 



Dr. W. P. Peck, English Neighborhood, N. J., says: "The caleipillar 

 spoken of at the last meeting of the club, has this season done an innnense 

 amount of damage to young fruit trees in tliis vicinity. 



" Perluips the result of my experience may be of value to your readers 

 I conitnenced to make war upon them early in the season, when they first 

 made tli(?ir appearance, by taking off the leaves upon which I found them 

 and l)urning them in the kitchen stove. I have made it my first business 

 in the morning to visit m}-- trees and destroy the destroyer. 'J'lic larger 

 p;irt have been destroyed while very small, and before liny had done any 

 damage, and bef )re they were laig(? enough to emigrate to my grapi; vines, 

 which have consequently escaped the damage done to those of my neigh- 



