FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1S61 
pure air around the milk-room, pure cream, pure 
salt, and a good dairywoman. Care and cleanliness 
must he had, f"v without thorn good, sweet, luscious 
butter is an Impossibility. 
Having had opportunities for examining the pro¬ 
ducts of the best dairies, both at home and in foreign 
countries, I affirm without fear of contradiction in 
fact, that there is no better butter made than can bo 
produced in this State, and it is our own fanlt that 
the great mass which goes to market is not of the 
very first i|iiality. We have made great improve¬ 
ments in the last ten years; let us still further im¬ 
prove, for no other State has so much good butter 
land as the State of New York.— v. 
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along slowly. (See my article iu the Rural ot jnov. 
for d, 1868, which refers to this family on the potato 
;s.” question.) 
! so As to the remedy to arrest the mischief, 1 am forced 
od. simply to suggest such Air. Stirph akd says he tried, 
the without effect-plaster of Paris. Perhaps lime and 
ise- wood ashes before a shower of rain would prove 
the effectual. On a small scale, the decoction 01 walnut 
i by leaves has proved beneficial. Warm soapsuds could lie 
and tried also. The truth is, they arc havdy little villains, 
our and, like the New York Zouaves, not easily routed, 
ring 1 would advise friend 8. to keep an eye on then), 
and and discover where they came from, whether the 
ride grubs were hatched in his corn field, or, in other 
ious words, whether they underwent their change from 
ad a the grid, to the beetle In his field, or came there on 
h of the wing from some neighboring plants, which-they 
| um . abandoned, preferring the corn. It were well to 
i, or discover where they lay their eggs, and what the 
ride larva-, feed on before they become small beetles, 
ratio Having had no opportunity to observe their habits, 
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comet of a rebellion in our midst. J. Stauefeb. 
Lam-Aster, Pa., May, 1801. 
— 
A NEW CORN WEEVIL. 
But Mr. S. has found time to examine a number of 
miuor insects, and among others "a small beetle, 
which is making sad havoc with young green corn,” 
in the neighborhood of Skaueateles, and sent us by a 
correspondent in that section. It seems to he a now 
enemy, unknown to our entomologists. Our ento¬ 
mologist remarks as follows: 
The small beetle inclosed by Mr. E. L. Shephard, 
| of Skaueateles, which ho states is a new depredator 
desirous to know its name and the 
DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS 
We have jnst returned (July 2d) from a visit among 
the farm and farmers in this vicinity. Potatoes are 
looking exceedingly well; in fact, we never saw 
better promiso of a fine orop at thiB season of the 
year. Corn has suffered from our cold, backward 
spring. On high, warm land, it is tolerable, hut in 
low fields it is very small and yellow, and needs good 
hot summer weather, which we hope we may yet get, 
though we are now enduring a cold, drenching rain, 
which has continued for twenty-four hours without 
any proBpcct of cessation. The cut worms are making 
sad work with the corn in many places, and alto- 
to him, and is 
method of destroying it, has been examined. Its 
habits, in attacking the young, green corn, with 
which it “makes sad havoc,” 1 confess is new to me, 
nor can l learn anything from Pitch, Harris, Kor.- 
i..vit } or Hay, respecting the habits of this creature. 
True, Mr. Say describes it among his Rkynchophoru» 
of ITkubST, hut it belongs to the genus Sphenophorus 
of ScuoNHKN, which embraces thirty-six species 
found in the United States. The insect in question 
is a member of a highly destructive family of small- 
sized snout beetles, Curcui.ionid.e, commonly known 
as the weevil tribe, of which there are upward of one 
hundred known genera. 
THE DAIRY - No, IX. 
In the manufacture of hatter, the best gnide to a 
new beginner would be the knowledge obtained by 
visiting some of the best dairies in the State. But 
as that would hardly be convenient, I have selected 
from various volumes of the Transactions of the State 
Society, statements made by those who obtained 
premiums for their butter in different years. Tt, will 
be noted that there is a diversity in the minor details, 
showing that there Is, as yet, no absolute rule which 
can be applied to all places and persons. The first 
statement 3a made by Mr. B. 8. Cauprntkh, oi 
Chemung county, who is among our best and most 
successful dairymen, Und who churns the milk and 
cream together. lie says: 
“The milk, when drawn, is strained into tin pails, 
holding twelve quarts each, and sot on the bottom of 
the cellar, which is a water lime cement, where it 
remains until it becomes loppered. Tt is then, both 
milk and cream, poured into churns holding a barrel 
eaoh; a pailful of water to h!x of milk added, and 
the whole brought to the temperature of 68 degrees. 
The elmming is done by horse-power, and requires 
about two hours. Just before the butter lias fully 
come, another pailfnl of water to six of milk is put into 
The batter, on being taken from the churn with, a 
ladle, is washed with hard water, as long as it la 
tinged with the milk. After being washed, It is salted 
with ground rock salt, five and a half pounds in win¬ 
ter, spring, and fall, and seven and a half pounds ot 
salt to one hundred pounds of butter that is to stand 
in the cellar through the summer. T he next morn¬ 
ing after being Baited, the butter is worked on iiuoak 
worker and packed in oak flrkinB or ash tubs, with 
ash or oak covers. Reject basswood covers, as they 
injure the butter to the depth of four to six inches. 
PEAR. CULTURE IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS. 
Your western readers are aware, and perhaps most 
of your eastern readers alBO, that there has been a 
great deal of croaking about this country as a fruit 
region. Even among us now are men who wisely 
shake their heads and assert, that it is useless! The 
apple and tho pear will not thrive here. 1 am writ¬ 
ing this tho first day of July—and within two weeks 
I have seen at least two thousand healthy, thrifty, (and 
most of them,) bearing dwarf and standard pear trees, 
— not in one locality, nor on the same kind of soil, 
with like exposure,—hut on tho light soil I have 
described an Wakeman’b, on the pure sand, on gravel 
and sand, on the stiff clay, and on the low, black 
prairie,—with partial protection, with complete pro¬ 
tection, and without any protection, — near the 
lake, and under tho influences of the lake winds, 
and away from the lako aud its influences. 
At Wakeman’8 I saw 1,200 trees in a body, 
many of them in bearing, thrifty, healthy, and as 
promising as any like number at Mt. Hope. The 
favorite pears here, (at WakRman’s) because of their 
hardiness and productiveness, are the l-Teinisb Beauty, 
Louise Bonne de Jersey, and Virgalieu. The Flemish 
Beauty is tho one ho would choose for extended 
culture, if hut one. 
“These trees look healthy,” said I. 
“0, the pears are all right. I find it about as 
easy to get a bushel of pears as a bushel of apples. 
My exertions are to keep pear trees down. If I use 
tho knife, it is on the lop , not the side limbs. They 
come in quite early bearing when kept. down. It 
ed every day. The butter is taken from the enuru 
with a ladle aud put into a machine to extract the 
milk from the butter without washing. It is then 
again placed in Lho Proservatory for twelve hours, 
when it iB worked over and packed lu tabs. Water 
is not used in cleansing^ butter, because 1 consider 
salt a better purifier than water. Ground Liverpool 
salt ia used, an ounce to the pound.” 
That Mr. COLLIER makes first quality of butter, I 
can bear persoual testimony, from having eaten it at 
bisowu pleasant home, In-Turin. The attention of 
Fig. 1. Sphenophorus—Corn-leaf Weevil. 
Fig. 2. Barridius trinotata—Potato-stalk Weevil. 
Fig. 3. Callandra granaria—Wheat grain Weevil. 
8 . Snout of fig. 1. A. The antennae. 
P. Pupa of fig. 2. L. The larvic, or grub. 
I will not perplex the reader with the hard names 
employed to designate the various genera, some of 
which are as unpronounceable as those of some Rus¬ 
sian Counts, and the wonder is how the little creat¬ 
ures carnc by them; suffice it to say that lig. 1 illus¬ 
trates the insect sent by Mr. Sue mt aud, showing the 
elbowed antenna: (a) inserted at the base, or near 
the eye, on the long, slightly-curved snout (s). The 
color is a dark brown when the short, stiff scales are 
removed, which, in the fresh specimen, gives them 
the appearance of being covered with a powdery 
substance, producing a mottled appearance. 
Fig. 2 shows a similar insect, the Barridius trim- 
lata, or potato weevil. The lines indicate their 
natural size; in the latter the anteiinte are inserted 
near the jaws, while others have them inserted inter¬ 
mediately; thus the modifications of structure are 
They are all herbivoroas, some feed 
almost endless, 
upon the leaves, others upon and inside the steniB, 
and others again on the grain or seed like the Callan¬ 
dra oryxes, the rice weevil, (and the C. granaria, or 
Their cushioned tarsi are 
wheat weevil (fig. 3). 
better adapted for adhesion to plants than for loco¬ 
motion, hence they are slow travelers on foot. But 
the majority by far are provided with wings, yet it is 
true some genera have their elytra, or wing covers, 
soldered together, so that they cannot fly. When 
alarmed, they either take wing, or told np their legs 
and drop to the ground, lying perfectly still, and can 
hardly he distinguished from a grain of sand or pellet 
of clay; but look sharp and you will find them, though 
they may soon hide. 
Those infesting fruit trees are often caught by 
extending a sheet beneath the tree, and striking the 
trunk with a mallet or billet of wood, protected by a 
cloth from bruising the bark. They drop down when 
the tree is jarred, though, when the female is busy 
at work in depositing her eggs, she is more obstinate, 
and does not yield on a slight or single jar. 'I heir 
but surface drainage — the water, in a wet tune, 
standing within two feet of the surface unless drained 
off. The writer is convinced it is not safe to assert 
that this is not a fruit country. 
II Lansing 
