THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



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BKSTS KRIIT TREE IXVIGORATOR AGAIN. 



Ahis lliat we should s^ay so! there i« trouble 

 ill the camp of this great benefactor of tlie fruit- 

 gro^ver^. ,\. Baltimore firm bought out Mr. 

 Hi's!"« old patent right some time ago. and has 

 nilvcrtiscd it extensively, and now Mr. Best has 

 taken out a new patent right (dated June 2d, 

 IM'i.S), for a new and highly improved Invigor- 

 aior, and threatens to prosecute all who buy the 

 old i)atent right. The beauty of it is, that most 

 of the certifleates that Mr. Best prints to prove 

 the excellence of the new Invigorator, are dated 

 lung before that Invigorator was patented, and 

 must consequently apply to the old Invigorator, 

 which he sold out to the unfortunate Baltimore 

 lirni, and every buyer of which he threatens to 

 l>rosecute. 



Some of our readers nniy perhaps think that 

 this is a joke, and that as there Is said to bo al- 

 ways honor even among thieves, so there must 

 iii'cessarily be common decency oven among 

 t|uaoks and charlatans. But this is what Mr. 

 Henj. Best says himself, of his neic Invigorator 

 in his latest circular: "Improved from eight 

 years' experience of the use of the old Invigo- 

 rator, it is far superior to it. Patented June 2, 

 IxiW. The public are notilied to purchase no 

 (tight of John Aiieakn, (di'as Geoi'ge W. Jack- 

 -1111, of Baltimore, as I wir.i, ritosKf itk am, 



WHO BLV KKOM HIM TO SELL OK VSt:.' 



Shabby, isn't it? Sell a man a jaeknss aMd 

 then iiro>eeute him for riding njioii ii I 



I>| sr's Thkk IwiGouvToli.— ()ure\iriel tmni 

 I lie J-JiitOJiloIofti'-f two week^ .mo -hawed ihe 

 ilieoretieal absuidity of thi> i>atent articli . J. 

 1!. of ToloiKi, 111., states thai (his Im igorator 

 «a-ii-edb.\ certain partie-, theie. and that the 

 burei'^ increased rapidh after is- apiilicalimi 

 and that one man look fourteen borei- iiiuii .i 

 jiciih tree -oine time after u-ing the -tnlV. and 

 ill hi- <i|iMiii>M it 1- I'l 111) nioie u-e than an appli- 

 I ilioii III wmil .\- to potato bim-, he sa\- it 



The Insect Extixgulsher, by Joseph Treat, 

 X. J. This is a small duodecimo pamphlet of 

 some lij pages, containing many useful sugges- 

 tions for the destruction of insects, most of 

 which, however, are as old as the Mj'^- The 

 fundamental error of the author is t)^all bugs, 

 without exception, arc injurious, ^TTd should 

 therefore be ruthlessly exterminated.* For ex- 

 ample, children are to be set to work to kill off 

 all the butterflies. •' whether in the street, the 

 garden, tlie field, or wherever found."' And 

 yet the commonest butterfly that we have in the 

 United States is our friend rather than our foe : 

 for its larva feeds exclusively upon milkweed 

 (Asclepkis) . Upon the same principle all the 

 birds, without exception, are to be cherished 

 because, as we are told, they all of them prey 

 upon bugs. And yet western horticulturists 

 are now almost unanimously of opinion, that 

 there are about half a dozen birds that must be 

 destroyed by every fruit grower, if he would 

 raise a crop that will pay for the harvesting. 



MORE GOOD WORDS, 

 in the course of the lectures lately delivered 

 at the Industrial Colleges of the States of Illinois 

 and Kansas, the American Entomologist Avas 

 often very l^ivorably spoken of: while every 

 mail brings good words and compliments from 

 our readers. The manner in which our little 

 paper has been received throughout the country 

 atiords us much satisfaction , and we can only reit- 

 erate our promise (o improve it with age. so far 

 as it is in our power, and again thank our many 

 friends for their kind support. 



~IUtK*NnnJER.S. 



Vie iciriet 10 ha\e lo announce that we can no 

 longer fnrni-h back nunibei- of eitherof our tir-t 

 thiee number-, th" unexpectedh large cail lor 

 Ihi'i'i ha^inir entircl\ c\hau-ted tho-e edition''. 



\^s^^EKs to corrim-ondents. 



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 illii-tuite an\ aitide the\ ei.iv e m^ t' 

 AMUiif w Entomoi.im.i-t. we lia\e dee 

 liirnish electrot) pes of our A\ood cut-. 

 Ii.df the cost of engraving: the-e eleetioi 

 1)P retained b\ the juilie- ii.eei\iiig ll 

 Ihev desire it. 



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the re>t of the famnv i>j nm, n lu ,jii^..s^, ... 

 aquaiieiii^ecis, an J not upon \tf,'etable food 



