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us to favor this conclusion, and we think our 

 friends, who for the promotion of temperance, 

 have cut down their orchards, have shown a 

 "zeal not according to knowledge." They 

 seemed not to be aware that the same sub- 

 stances which produced the deleterious effects 

 that they desired to avoid, might be converted 

 into wholesome and substantial articles of hu- 

 man sustenance. — Cultivator. 



Standing in the portico of a hotel in Provi- 

 dence once, we were struck with the extraordi- 

 nary thrift and apparent grooming of a pair of 

 black horses driven to the door by a gentleman 

 in a light wagon. When he dismounted we 

 took the liberty of making some inquiries about 

 the beautiful team that had attracted our atten- 

 tion — a true horseman always excuses such liber- 

 ties: we were informed that the high flesh and 

 glossy coats that excited our admiration were 

 wholly attributable to the food on which they 

 lived; this for three months preceding had been 

 nothing but apples stewed with hay; and for 

 light work their owner considered the best and 

 cheapest food he had ever tried. 



From the Farmers' Cabinet. 



TOBACCO AROUND PEACH TREES. 



Mr. Editor, — I have read with interest in dif- 

 ferent numbers of the Cabinet, articles respect- 

 ing the depredations of the insect JEgeria Exi- 

 tiosa, upon the peach tree ; and have seen va- 

 rious remedies proposed. I, too, am induced to 

 offer one, as simple as I believe it is effectual, 

 viz: an application of tobacco in the following 

 manner: In the lajter part of spring or early 

 part of summer, scrape the earth from around 

 the body of the tree, to the depth of one to three 

 inches, being particularly careful not to injure 

 the crown of the roots ; fill the cup thus formed 

 with trash tobacco from the shops, and envelop 

 the boll of the tree to the height of three or four 

 inches, with the stems or leaves. I do not offer 

 this as a means to renovate a diseased tree, but 

 as a preventive, the efficiency of which has been 

 tested for nineteen years by Samuel Wood, one 

 of the most approved nurserymen and extensive 

 fruit growers, in this section of country ; and 

 also by other practical farmers with unfailing 

 success. The efficacy of the ill weed, when 

 applied in this manner, appears to result in its 

 universal nauseousness. The place which this 

 insect selects for depositing its eggs is the junc 

 tion of the boll of the tree with the surface of 

 the ground, and finding there a substance which 

 is loathsome to it, it chooses rather to wing its 

 way to the orchard of a less provident neighbor, 

 than consign its eggs, and consequently to trust 



the reproduction of its species to a tree so forti- 

 fied against its attacks. I am aware that some 

 may be prejudiced against this remedy on ac- 

 count of its simplicity; but it may be well to 

 remember, that simple inventions, and simple 

 remedies are often the most valuable, and are 

 besides, not always those that are soonest disco- 

 vered. Be not discouraged then, but give it a 

 fair trial, and if you are not richly rewarded 

 with an abundant supply of one of the most 

 delicious gifts of Pomona, then I am a deceived 

 Buckeye Farmer. 

 Smithfield, Ohio, 2d mo. 27th, 1844. 



COAL TAR. 

 We observe many recommendations of coal 

 tar as a paint. It is very cheap, costing only 

 two dollars and fifty cents a barrel, and is said 

 to constitute an excellent pigment. We recol- 

 lect recommending it once before and receiving 

 a communication from an intelligent correspond- 

 ent whose experience lead him to condemn it in 

 the most unequivocal terms. It is possible he 

 got hold of an inferior article, or they may have 

 been particular circumstances attending the ex- 

 periment. We are extremely anxious to see the 

 dingy weatherboard ing of our houses covered 

 with something, and the funereal black of coal 

 tar would be better than the gloomy poverty of 

 its present appearance. 



NEW BUTTER CHURN. 



Application has been made, says the Boston 

 Cultivator, for a patent for a butter churn on an 

 entirely new principle, which, if report speaks 

 true, is to do away with every other mode. The 

 plan is to blow a current of air, contained in a 

 tin, or other vessel, after the manner of boiling 

 by means of steam, the air being raised by a 

 machine to be worked by hand in the simplest 

 and easiest manner. By this means the butter 

 is said not only to come in a short space of time 

 but always regularly, adding about one half to 

 the quality. An equal temperature is to be kept 

 up by blowing cold air in the summer and hot 

 air in the winter. Truly we live in an age of 

 improvement. — Connecticut Farmers 7 Gazette. 



NEW YORK STATE FAIR AND AGRICUL- 

 TURAL CLUBS. 



We are much indebted to our friend H. O. 

 Reillv, Esq. of Albany, for an account of the 

 fourth fair and exhibition of the New York 

 Agricultural Society, held at Poughkeepsie on 

 the 17th of September. It was undoubtedly a 



