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four or five rods, and run a strip of tar from the top of the board to the 

 bottom on the outside opposite the hole, and they will leave the board, and 

 in trying to get around the tarred stripe will slide into the hole, where 

 they will be obliged to remain till they can be buried at leisure, and new 

 holes opened for more victims. It is seldom one has to fence more than 

 one side of a field, but wherever the fence is it is a sure stop. After they 

 commence flying, corn is too far advanced for them to damage, as it is too 

 ripe to roast. Chinch bugs always fly with the wind— never against it. I 

 have no doubt if these means had been thought of in season we might have 

 saved thousands of acres of wheat in this county alone which were entirely 

 destroyed. At any rate it will be extensively tried hereabouts if the bugs 

 appear next season. The bugs generally commence on some small dryish 

 patch, frequently in the middle of a large field of wheat or corn, in which 

 case it would only be necessary to fence them in, instead of out." 



Mr. J. H. Knight, Monroe, Orange Co., presented a new seedling apple. 



On motion of Dr. Ward — Pruning of Trees and Vines was made the sub- 

 ject for discussion two weeks from to-day. 



Adjourned. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair. 



January 17, 1865. 



A Good Place for Emigration- — Atlantic County, New Jersey. 



Mr. Nathaniel Hine, Absecom, recommends the above county to persons 

 in pursuit of new homes upon cheap lands. He says : " I have one half 

 acre (400) vines, set in the spring of 1860, from which t have sold, of fruit 

 and must, $620 worth. One of my neighbors has. 300 vines, set in the 

 spring of 1861. Last October he sold ^285 worth of must, besides furnish- 

 ing a large family with fruit. Other small vineyards are equally produc- 

 tive. I lived thirty-three years on the shore of Lake Erie, not far from 

 Kelley's Island. I believe this place preferable for grapes ; the quality is 

 superior. I have now twenty acres set with Catawba vines, which are 

 perfectly hardy here on the sea-shore. I have one-third of an acre in bear- 

 ing, from which I sold one hundred and fifteen dollars worth of fruit and 

 made forty gallons of wine. I understand others in the county were more 

 successful. I have been informed that in the new settlement of Hamonton, 

 in this county, they expect to load three freight cars a day next season 

 with strawberries. They have raised strawberries onl}' two or three years 

 for market. But they are ' white men ' that have come and settled in New 

 Jersey. With our experience, which we will readily give, other white 

 men can do better in the same time than we have done. Good land for 

 grapes and berries can be bought within two or three miles of the station 

 or the shore for twenty ($20) dollars per acre, accessible to good churches 

 and first-rate schools. All kinds of berries also are profitably grown here. 

 This place is fifty miles from Philadelphia, on the Camden and Atlantic 

 Railroad." 



