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of the pupae, and, moreover, their destruction prevents the 

 subsequent injury. It would be folly to pay sixty cents a 

 bushel for them later in the season when they are nearly 

 full-grown and have done most of the harm they are capa- 

 ble of doing. The price, therefore, should vary with the 

 season; and while, in latitude 39°, 75 cents or $1.00 should 

 be offered in March, the price should diminish to 50 cents 

 in April, 25 cents in May, and 10 cents in June. As the 

 dates of hatching vary with the latitude, so the law should 

 vary in the matter of dates, according to the requirements 

 of each particular State. In addition to the foregoing re- 

 quirements of such an act, every precaution should be 

 taken to prevent fraud and dishonesty in obtaining the 

 money. 



The laws obliging proper labor will prove more bene- 

 ficial to a community than the bounty laws, and the labor 

 is best performed, first in destroying the eggs in the fall, 

 and next in destroying the young insects after the bulk of 

 them have hatched out in the spring. 



In the more thinly settled parts of the country, laws may 

 be more or less ineffectual, so far as the general destruction 

 of the insects is concerned, though they will even there be 

 one of the best means of relieving destitution ; but in more 

 thickly settled sections they will accomplish both results. 



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