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REMEDY FOR BUGS AND WORMS ON THE GRAPE-VINE.—BOMMER’S MANURE. 
By adopting this system, a great advantage will be 
gained over the old plan, both in feed and trouble, 
as no store hogs need be kept during winter, unless 
it be breed sows, which should be managed so that 
they would drop their pigs during the month of 
March or the first of April. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
REMEDY FOR BUGS AND WORMS ON THE 
GRAPE-VINE. 
Mississippi City , 18/A June, 1843. 
Dear Sir : My grapes are now nearly full-grown, 
and have had no rain since they were in bloom. 
A friend of mine this spring, said I was an enthu¬ 
siast about the cultivation of the grape in this 
country; that they would not succeed, &c.; that 
he had tried them, and found a small bug or louse 
would get on the leaves and kill them, and cause 
the grapes to drop off. This made me more vigi¬ 
lant, and on the 10th May, I discovered the bug he 
spoke of in great numbers on the young leaves and 
ends of the branches. I immediately commenced 
pruning off all the young branches they were on, 
leaving one joint above the last bunch of grapes, 
and fed the milk cows on the young branches and 
leaves. The cows improved very much on this 
grape-vine fodder, and in a few days no more bugs 
made their appearance ; and I found both them and 
the grapes had been benefited by the operation. 
Again on the 1st June, a small, yellow worm, 
with black marks across it, made its appearance in 
considerable numbers on the grape-leaves. I once 
more commenced pulling off all the leaves they 
were on, and soon got clear of them, still further 
benefiting the grapes and cattle. They are all no 
doubt the larva of some fly or bug that lasts but a 
short time, and appear to me to be sent as over¬ 
seers or guardians, to admonish us of the necessity 
of pruning our vines and feeding our cattle. How¬ 
ever, be this as it may, our grapes are now nearly 
full-grown, the crop heavy, and every appearance 
that they will do as well as I could desire. 
Egyptian Wheat. —A neighbor of mine has 
tried the Egyptian wheat, and finds it succeeds 
well here. I am trying the buckwheat, and feel 
satisfied it will do sufficiently well, to at least 
make a valuable manure for our poor land. 
Tussac and Peruvian Grass. —We are all 
anxiety here to get the Tussac grass, so highly 
spoken of by Captain Ross in his visit to the Falk¬ 
land islands. Can you give us information how or 
where it is to be had ? I am now trying the Peru¬ 
vian grass; a part of it has lived through the 
drought, as well as a little lucerne. There are 
many experiments now being made in this vicinity, 
which I hope will prove of great utility to us all 
in this section of country, and not entirely useless 
to the subject of agriculture in general. I do not 
know a man in this country, who is not doing more 
in the way of agriculture this year than ever before; 
and although our beginnings are small, these may, 
by persevering industry, guaranty us important re¬ 
sults. 
The first numbers of your second volume, give 
assurance of all you promised, and every person I 
have heard speak of it, is highly pleased with the 
work. We have a very valuable paper published 
in our own state now, the Southwestern Farmer, 
which I feel a sort of state pride in supporting; 
but we need all the information you can both give 
us, and I hope to see you and all those engaged in 
the laudable pursuit of dispensing useful truths 
well patronised. J. J. McCaughan. 
For the American Agriculturist 
BOMMER’S MANURE. 
New York, June 12/A, 1843. 
Dear Sir : I herewith send you a report of a 
committee of farmers, on an experiment of my pro¬ 
cess of manufacturing manure, recently made at 
Flatlands, and if you think it worthy, I should be 
pleased to see it inserted in your paper. 
George Bommer. 
A committee consisting of the following gentle¬ 
men, Elias Hubbard, Esq., of Flatlands, Ferdinand 
L. Wyckoff, of New Lotts, Michael Stryker, of 
Flatbush, Henry S. Ditmas, of Flat bush, Johannes 
Lott, jr., of Flatlands, appointed from a large com¬ 
pany of farmers, assembled to examine Mr. George 
Bommer’s method for making vegetable manure 
by fermentation, on the premises of Garret Kowen- 
lioven, Esq.,ofFlatlands, in this county, respectfully 
Report— 
That after careful examination of a heap laid up 
on the 19th of April, and opened this afternoon 
(May 3, 1843), they most cheerfully acknowledge 
that the change produced upon the materials used, 
far exceeded their most sanguine expectations; 
said materials, consisting of straw and salt hay, 
presented, when opened, the appearance and smell 
of rich manure. 
Said committee further report that they also ex¬ 
amined the book containing Mr. B’s. method, and 
are fully persuaded that the various ingredients 
used, are all, in themselves, beneficial, and in their 
combination must produce the most favorable re¬ 
sults. The committee most cordially commend 
the above method to the serious consideration of 
the farmers of Long Island. 
By order of the Committee. 
Elias Hubbard, Chairman. 
Flatlands, May 3, 1843. 
As our correspondent has modestly omitted say¬ 
ing anything of the fine points of his beautiful 
South-Down ewe (Fig. 32), we shall take the lib¬ 
erty of doing it for him. They may be briefly 
enumerated as follows:— 
A fine, clean head; eye bright, with the orbit 
not too prominent; short neck ; straight back; ribs 
springing high and bowing; wide loin; tail set on 
well up; long from hip to rump; very deep in the 
flank; full twist; round, projecting brisket; fore 
legs standing perpendicularly under the body; sound 
hoofs, and well woolled on the belly and thighs. 
We are also indebted to the same source for a 
spirited sketch of a native sheep (Fig. 33), witn 
the points all lettered. On these we shall make 
