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out them England could not feed half her stock, or furnish her people with 
beef and mutton Their moist and cold climate is better suited to the root 
crop than ours, and justifies its more extensive culture; but I think wo 
could profitably increase the culture of the Swede and mangold, and de¬ 
pend on them to a greater extent than we do for feeding our stock. The 
cooling nature of the mangold is well suited to counteract the heating 
tendencies of our Indian corn, and the two would go well together in fat¬ 
tening bullocks. 
The live fences of England I think less of than I did before I saw them. 
The hedge generally occupies as much, or more, laud as our crooked rail 
fence, and is quite as expensive. A stone wall is the best and cheapest 
farm fence, when the material is at hand to build it. England and America 
both have more fence than is profitable or desirable, in my opinion; the 
Continent perhaps has less. In traveling from Calais to Paris, thence to 
and through Switzerland, Germany, Prussia, and Belgium, we saw no 
fencing of farms, no hedge rows or waste land between crops. Cattle are 
easier fenced in than out, and the easiest method is pursued. 
In England it is being discovered that they have more hedge rows than 
they can afford, and one estate that l have heard of has recently reclaimed 
and added 45 acres to its tillable lands, by uprooting old hedges and con¬ 
solidating fields. It is high time for a fence reformation at home; but we 
should not be so radical as to destroy all our fences at once. E. C. 
Borers in tiie Honey Locust. 
LETTER FROM ASA FITCH, M. IX, ENTOMOLOGIST OF THE SOCIETY. 
Hon. B. P. Johnson: The letters which you forward me, with an accom¬ 
panying box of insects, from Robert Howell, Esq., of Nichols, Tioga 
county, N.Y., dated January 2*7th, brings to our knowledge a fact not recorded 
before, that I am aware, namely, that the locust tree borer, Clytus Mobiniee, 
of Forster, (the same insect which was subsequently named C. pictus by 
Drury, and still later C. Jlexuosux by Fabricius,) which so greatly injures 
the locust trees all over our country, sometimes establishes itself also in 
the honey locust, Gleditschia tHcanthus, in which it is thereupon apt to con¬ 
tinue until it ruins the tree. 
Mr. Howell says he set out two trees of the honey locust in his door- 
yard about twelve years ago. A few years after they were found to be 
badly infested by borers, which began to throw out their chips or worm 
dust from the trees each year about the tenth of June, the worms being 
then about three-fourths of an inch long, and of a dirty white color, with red 
heads. For a few years past the trees had become so much infested and 
eaten that numbers of their limbs died; and about the first of August 
last he cut them down. The larger tree was about six inches in diameter, 
and its body was completely cut to pieces by holes bored everywhere 
through it, and about a hundred,in their pupa state — large, plump fellows, 
an inch long — were found in it. Some few weeks after, on splitting up 
the wood for fuel, other specimens were found, changed to their perfect 
state, but dead, and more or less decayed. One was obtained perfect, 
which he sends us. Some of its yellow bands are partly and others are 
