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after a fortnight, its size and its operations have 
much increased. It has now eaten half way down 
the apple ; and the position of the hole at the top, 
if the apple continue upright, or nearly so, is con¬ 
venient for a purpose it has up to this time been 
used for; that is, as a pass to get rid of its little 
pellets-of excrement, which are something like 
fine sawdust, or coarse sand. Another communi¬ 
cation with the outer air is therefore required; and 
it must be so constructed as to allow the power of 
gravity to assist in keeping it clear. It is accord¬ 
ingly made directly downwards, towards that part 
of the apple which is lowest ■ and thus the trouble 
of thrusting the pellets upwards through the eye 
of the apple is saved, and a constant admission 
given to a supply of air, without any labor. The 
hole now made, is not, however, sufficiently open 
for an observer to gain by its means any know¬ 
ledge of what is going on within ; this is only to 
be obtained by cutting open a number of the apples, 
as they gradually advance towards ripeness; the 
hole is, however, very easily seen, from its always 
having adhering to it, on the outside, an accumula¬ 
tion of the little grains which have been thrust 
through. Having completed this work, the grub 
returns towards the centre of the apple, where he 
feeds at his ease. When within a few days of be¬ 
ing full fed, he, for the first time, enters the core, 
through a round hole gnawed in the hard horny 
substance, which always separates the pips from 
the pulp of the fruit; and the destroyer now finds 
himself in that spacious chamber, which codlings, 
in particular, always have in their centre. From 
this time, he eats only the pips, never again tasting 
the more common pulp, which hitherto had satis¬ 
fied his unsophisticated palate; now nothing less 
than the highly-flavored, aromatic kernels will suit 
his tooth ; and on these, for a few days, he feasts 
in luxury. Somehow or other, the pips of an ap¬ 
ple are connected with its growth, as the heart of 
an animal with its life. Injure the heart, an animal 
dies—injure the pips, an apple falls. Whether the 
fall of his house gives the tenant warning to quit, 
I cannot, say, but quit he does, and that almost im¬ 
mediately. He leaves the core, crawls along his 
breathing and clearing-out gallery, the mouth of 
which, before nearly closed, he gnaws into a 
smooth, round hole, which will permit him free 
passage, without hurting his fat, soft, round body j 
then out he comes, and, for the first time in his 
life finds himself in the open air. He now wan¬ 
ders about on the ground till he finds.the stem of a 
tree • up this he climbs, and hides himself in some 
nice little crack in the bark. I should remark that 
the fall of the apple, the exit of the grub, and his 
wandering to this place of security, usually take 
place in the night time. In this situation he re¬ 
mains without stirring for a day or two, as if to 
rest himself after the uncommon fatigue of a two 
yards’ march; he then gnaws away the bark a 
little, in order to get further in, out of the way of 
observation ; and having made a smooth chamber, 
big enough for his wants, he spins a beautiful little 
milk-white, silken case, in which, after a few 
weeks, he becomes a chrysalis, and in this state re¬ 
mains throughout the winter, and until the follow¬ 
ing June, unless some unlucky, black-headed tit, 
running up the trunk, peeping into every cranny, 
and whistling out his merry see-saw, happens to 
spy him; in which case, he is plucked, without 
ceremony, from his retreat, and his last moments are 
spent in the bird’s crop. But, supposing no such 
ill-fortune betide him, by the middle of June he is 
again on the wing, and hovering round the young 
apples on a midsummer evening as before. By 
burning weeds in your garden, at this time of thp 
year, you will effectually drive away this little 
moth. If you have trees, the crops of which you 
value, make a smoking fire under each. It will put 
you to some inconvenience if your garden be near 
your house; but the apples will repay you for 
that.” 
As the apple worm instinctively leaves the fruit 
soon after it falls from the trees, it has been re¬ 
commended to gather up all wind-fallen fruit daily, 
and give it to cattle or swine, in order to kill these 
insects, before they have time to escape. Mr. Jo¬ 
seph Burrelle, of Quincy, Massachusetts, in vol. 
xviii. of the “ New England Farmer,” says that, 
“ if any old cloth is wound around, or hung in the 
crotches of the trees, the apple worms will conceal 
themselves therein ; and by this means, thousands 
of them may be obtained and destroyed, from the 
time when they first begin to leave the apples, un¬ 
til the fruit is gathered.” 
PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS FROM LIGHT¬ 
NING. 
“ If there be one time more than another,” says 
a late writer on electricity, u in which man feels 
that he is entirely in the hands of One mightier 
than himself, in which all his personal pride sinks 
in the conviction of his utter helplessness, it is 
when the forked bolts of heaven glare about him 
with frightful brightness, and the dread artillery of 
the skies stuns him with its deafening peals, am. 
shakes the very earth on which he treads. Then 
I say, it is that his conscience tells him how en 
tirely dependent he is; and how, in a moment, tin 
next flash might be to him the instrument of death, 
without his having the slightest power to avert hie 
fate. In respect to the other great and irresistible 
powers of nature, man, in some sort, seeks them 
out—the lightning’s flash seeks out him. It is true 
he may go to shores where thunder storms are less 
violent, or to others wffiere they are much more 
violent than in his own land ; but regarding it gen¬ 
erally, lightning is no respecter of time nor place ; 
it was as much known to the ancients as to our¬ 
selves j it comes to us, so to speak, ‘in season and 
out of season’—its geographical distribution is less 
restricted than that of any other of nature’s great 
phenomena—tempests, perhaps, excepted.” 
With this startling admonition before him, 1 
any one 01 tne readers of these observations pa se- 
for a moment and count the number of lightning 
rods in his own neighborhood. Does he hesit te V 
He thinks there may be one on the village spire, 
and perhaps another on yon tall chimney; bi* 
where else, he knows not. Now he is led t ask' 
What is the cause of this apparent neglect 1 Why 
this consummate audacity in trifling, with the- eter¬ 
nal laws of nature by erecting monuments and in¬ 
viting down the fire of heaven, and providing no 
meaj s of conducting it safely away f The lea 
ing reasons for this,, are,., first, the comparatively 
