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bull was called Mars; his cow Venus. The cow died, leaving 
only two calves, both bulls. The produce of Mars was spoken of 
by our old breeders in the highest terms, being superior both 
for beef and milk. 
. “ In 1803, Mr. Daniel Harrison of Clarke county, Kentucky, pur¬ 
chased of Mr. Miller, of Virginia, a bull called Pluto, of the milk 
breed. Messrs. Welton & Hutchcroft also brought to Kentucky 
a bull called Shaker, of the milk breed. Capt. Wm. Smith also 
brought to Kentucky a very large bull called Buzzard, a mixture 
of the milk and beef breed. Messrs. Cunningham and Inskeep 
brought to Kentucky two bulls of this breed ; in one, the beef, 
and in the other the milk breed appeared to predominate. The 
descendants of all these cattle were called in Kentucky the Pat¬ 
ton stock." J. 
WORM ON GRAPE VINES. 
FROM DR. ASA FITCH, SALEM. 
Hon. B. P. Johnson : 
Dear Sir —The worm on grape vines, from E. M. Bradley, of 
East Bloomfield, is the larva of Abbot’s hawk-moth, Thyreus 
Abbotii of Swainson. I have occasionally met with this worm on 
grape vines, and oftener on the woodbine ( Ampelopsis ,) but have 
delayed introducing it in my Reports on Noxious Insects, in the 
hope of becoming more fully assured with respect to its transfor¬ 
mations. Swainson, from a figure made by Abbot, represents 
this worm as having a tail-like horn at the end of its back, in 
place of the glassy eye-like spot which you doubtless noticed on 
it if you opened the box in which it was sent. Hence Dr. J. P. 
Kirtland, of Cleveland, Ohio, (in Proceedings of Philad. Acad. Nat. 
Sci., 1857, p. 148,) has pronounced Abbot’s figure erroneous. BuG 
I think I have seen this worm with the horn as represented b]l 
Abbot, and that this is the normal form of the young worm, and 
that with the last change of its skin, it loses the horn, and/the 
eye-like spot then comes in its place. It was with the hope of 
becoming perfectly assured upon this point, that I have hitherto 
refrained from reporting this species, with the habits of which I 
have been acquainted for many years. 
I do not think this worm ever attacks the fruit. In the box 
sent, the leaves are all brown and withered, and the worm ap¬ 
pears gaunt and hungry, and yet none of the fresh-looking green 
grapes in the box are in the least gnawed; a strong evidence 
