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young bud; as soon as it opens, the egg 

 hatched, and the young larvae commences eat- 

 ing the young leaves, and curling them up, in 

 which he makes his home. They aredestroyed 

 by applying white wash to the limbs of the 

 tree. The white wash also kills a very de- 

 structive little insect, the eggs of which are 

 contained in little mussel shells, on the bark 

 of the apple and pear trees; [a species of coc- 

 cus.— Ed. J I will communicate the effect of 

 syringing the trees with the wash before the 

 buds break, in July, when the whole effect of 

 the experiment will be known. 



Saxonville, April 22, 1850. 



Notwithstanding much has been written 

 upon the habits of these two destructive insects, 

 (the curculio and codling moth,) Mr. Simp- 

 son's article will be found extremely valuable. 

 His observations have been made with great 

 care, and his experiments, in order to ascertain 

 their various changes, have been conducted 

 with great labor, and perhaps with greater at- 

 tention than has been bestowed upon them by 

 any previous writer. He has ascertained pre- 

 cisely the time when the curculio commences 

 his operations, and the period they continue to 

 destroy the fruit, thus placing it within the 

 means of all to save their entire crop, by at- 

 tending to the shaking of the trees, the only 

 mode in which we think they can be success- 

 fully attacked. Mr. Simpson's experiment of 

 syringing the trees and fruit is well worth try- 

 ing, and we shall be gratified to lay before our 

 readers the results of this plan after the season 

 is over. 



The codling moth is nearly as destructive to 

 the apple as the curculio to the plum. And 

 information in regard to the best means of pre- 

 venting their ravages will be hailed with plea- 

 sure by ail orchardists. Mr. Simpson's mode 

 is similar to that fi rst described, we believe, by 

 Mr. Joseph Burrelle, of duincy, and published 

 in the New England Farmer, (Vol. XVIII, 

 p. 398.) 



If such a plan is considered too expensive, 

 or too much trouble to be put into practice, in | 

 extensive orchards, it certainly is not in small 

 gardens where there are but few trees, and 

 these choice kinds. The value of perfect 

 fruits, compared with wormy ones, is too great 

 to allow any means to be neglected which will 

 secure the former. Suppose a garden to con- 

 tain half a dozen trees of the Red Astrachan, 

 Early Harvest, Bough, Williams, Benonia, and 

 Porter apples, how slight would be the expense 

 in the saving of a whole crop. 



TO PRESERVE EGGS FRESH. 



Turn water upon unslacked lime, in quan- 

 tity sufficient to cover the lime. In a short 

 time a scum will rise upon the surface. Then 

 drain off the whole water, and add fresh, and 

 repeat the operation till no more scum rises.— 

 Stir the lime and water, and put in your e^gs, 



j so that they are completely covered. This ex- 

 cludes the external air, and preserves them in 

 the finest order. I have now eggs that have 

 been kept in this way eight months and on 

 being broken, cannot be distinguished from 

 those which are fresh layed. A lady who gave 

 me this recipe, stated that she preserved them 

 so, perfectly good in this way for two years. — 

 The repeated saturations with water seems ne- 

 cessary to destroy the too great causticity of 

 the lime, otherwise its strong affinity for the 

 carbonate, the material of the egg shell, causes 

 its decomposition.— Selected. 



From the Genesee Farmer. 



RESUSCITATION OF WORN OUT LANDS. 



Under the above heading the American Ar- 

 tisan, published in the city of New York, has 

 the following remarks: 



"'To repair damage already done to the 

 soil, (of the United States,) will cost over one 

 thousand millions of dollars.' 



" Such is the conclusion of the Patent Office 

 Report on Agriculture, on the subject of Chap- 

 ter II.— 'What the country has lost by impo- 

 verishing its soils.' This impoverishing is 

 effected by the unwise mode of culture that 

 takes off the soil all it can and puts nothing 

 on, That there is a vast amount of such cul- 

 ture, statistics as well as observation abun- 

 dantly show; and the waste of labor and loss 

 of profit by such culture is immense, no doubt 

 fully equal to what this report states. But its 

 conclusion that it will require millions to re- 

 store these lands, is fallacious. The report 

 itself refutes its own conclusion, when it states 

 a well known fact in proof of its position, that 

 ' this deterioration is not unavoidable, for thou- 

 sands of skilful farmers have taken fields poor 

 in point of natural productiveness, and instead 

 of diminishing their fertility, they have added 

 ! ten cents on an acre to their annual income, 

 over and above all expenses,'— yes, and often 

 much more. And there is not an acre of these 

 worn out lands that can not be resuscitated by 

 such skilful farmers, without cost and with, 

 actual profit. The startling, unfounded posi- 

 tion which the report put forth, that it 'will 

 cost on an average twelve dollars and fifty 

 cents an acre to renovate the partially ex- 

 hausted lands of this State,' is not sustained 

 by a single proof. There is quite a penchant 

 in the Commissioner to make startling state- 

 ments. He says, 'a million tons of human 

 food pass down the Mississippi, where one ton 

 of the elements of such food ascend,' just as 

 if, for the production of this food, such a re- 

 turn of the elements of it was necessary. — 

 There is no truth in either of the theories. 

 The elements are in the air, water, and earth, 

 and the process of resuscitation can be carried 

 on not only without loss but with profit. The 

 cost of the manure, which, as that of leaven 



