ENTOMOLOGY. 
The insects of this,portion of Canada comprise a great many 
that are injurious to vegetation ; some attack and destroy the trees 
of the forest, while others are ravaging upon the succulent plants 
and bulbous roots of the vegetable garden. Again, some are feeding 
upon the cereals and fruits, and others are destroying flowers and 
ornamental shrubs. Most of these pests are natives, but many of 
them have been imported along with foreign plants, or have mi- 
grated into the country, as is the case with the Colorado Beetle, 
which has proved so destructive to the potato crop; during the 
past few years. | To many who have never made a study of in- 
sect life, it might at first appear very wonderful for those creatures 
to appear in such great numbers ; but, on the contrary, to those 
who have made it a special study, it is but the fulfilment of a 
natural law. This insect was known by Entomologists to exist 
many years ago, in Colorado, and on the Upper Missouri River, 
when it fed upon a species of wild potato (Solanum Rostratum) 
which this animal found to be an equal, if not superior article of 
food to the wild species, thus following back in the wake of civil- 
ization, and finding an abundance of food in its onward march, 
it has multiplied and spread until it has completely inundated the 
country. 
THE NEW COUNTRY. 
BY AN OLD SETTLER, OVER 70 YEARS OF AGE, 
In Darlington was my abode, 
.Full seventy years ago ; 
And when good meat we wished to eat, 
We killed the buck or doe ; 
For fish we used the hook and line, 
And pounded corn to make it fine ; 
On Johnny Cake we used to dine, 
In the New Country. 
