TWO DOLLARS .A. YEAR.] 
“PROGRESS AJNTD IMPROVEMENT." 
[SINGLE NO. TiTVIR CENTS. 
VOL. XIV. NO. 294 
ROCHESTER, N. Y.-FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 18,1863, 
[WHOLE NO. 705. 
MOOEE'S KUEAL HEW-YOEKEE, 
AX ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
rural, literary and family newspaper. 
CONDUCTED BY D, D. T. MOORE, 
With a Corpo of Able Aw»UtantM and Contributor*. 1 
CHAS. D. BRAGDON, Western Corresponding Editor, 
The Rural New-Yorker is desii-ned to be nnsnrpaet.ed 
in Value, Parity and Variety of Contents, and unique 
and beautiful iu Appearance. It. Conductor devotee bis 
personal attention to the supervision of it* Tarlous 
department-, and earnestly labors to render the Rural an 
eminently Reliable Guide on all the important Practical. 
Scientific aod otbcTSubjeCts intimately connected with the 
business of those whose interests it zealously advocates. 
As a Family Journal it is eminently Instructive und 
Entertaining — being so conducted that it can bo safely 
taken to the Homes of people of Intelligence, taste and 
discrimination. It embrace* more Agricultural, Horticul¬ 
tural. Scientific. Educate oh!, Literary and News Matter, 
interspersed with appropriate Engravings, than any other 
journal,—rendering it the most complete AGRICULTURAL, 
Literary and Family Newspaper in America. 
Ij7~ For Terms and other particulars, see last page. 
in company with my friend, lion. M. L. Dunlap, 
we drove up to the Villa, the center of 
WESTERN EDITORIAL NOTES. 
LARGE FARMS. 
u I hope you will denounce large farms--they 
are no blessing to the country,” said a friend to 
me, to whom I had declared my intention to 
visit the farm of M. L. Suli.i vast. Champaign 
Co., Ill. Without asking him for his reasons, I 
proceeded to discuss the question iu my own 
mind, and to resolve my duty in the premises. 
I have not made up my mind to denounce 
large farms. If they are an evil in this country, 
they cannot be of long continuance. For we 
have no laws of primogeniture and entail here. 
The father gathers and builds up the estate, and 
it is divided among the children. He concen¬ 
trates wealth; they scatter it. He accumulates 
strength; they dissipate it. What though a man 
does accumulate large areas of land; it does not 
remain undivided longer than one generation. 
And he must be a good business man—much 
better than the greater proportion of large farm¬ 
ers—if the superstructure he rears does not 
break tip of its own weight. In other words, 
large farms are, as a rule, a greater curse to their 
possessors than to any one else—especially in a 
business way. The character of our institutions, 
the theory of our government, the letter of our 
law and its spirit operate to prevent any serious 
TUE BROADLAND FARM. 
We had rode on this farm about five miles. We 
were received at the gate, welcomed, and con¬ 
ducted to the office by the proprietor, M. L. StrL- 
livaxt — a tall, broad-shouldered, muscular 
man, in the prime of life. It is one of the most 
natural things to do—to examine critically the 
man who has made his mark in any business, 
profession, or pursuit in life. Associated with 
reputed success, most of us have an ideal man 
wiib an ideal physical character, and a mind to 
match. And the first thing one does is to see 
how nearly the ideal and the real are related. 
Mr. Sn.LtVANT has the physical characteristics 
peculiar to men reared in limestone countries—a 
massive form, finely proportioned. His forehead 
is a broad, business one—covering a working 
brain of no ordinary practical power. Looking 
outfrom beneath t he brow is pair of mild, though 
keen, contemplative eyes, exceedingly expres¬ 
sive at times. 
Clad in his dark, loose sack coat, with white 
waistcoat and linen, his head carelessly covered 
with a broad-brimmed straw bat, as he settles 
back in his ample splint-bottomed office chair, 
he looks like a modern Hercules In repose. The 
burthen of business he carries requires broad 
shoulders and a strong frame. But Mr. S. enjoys 
good health, apparently. He was doubtless 
made for the place he occupies. He talks, refer¬ 
ring to his plans, of living fifty years yet to 
realize them. I hope he may! 
But we were not long in finding out that he 
did not desire 
A NEWSPAPER FAME. 
He has an titter abhorrence of anything that 
shall seem like advertising himself. And his 
extreme and expressed solicitude on this point 
leads me to record the fact here; and that our 
visit was made without his solicitation or agency. 
But 1 did not go thither for the purpose of writing 
up nor writing down anything nor anybody—but 
to learn something, if I could, of real use to the 
Rural reader; at the same time gratify a desire to 
compare the system of husbandry on this farm 
with that obtaining on other large farms which I 
have visited and. of which I have written. Unfor¬ 
tunately,the day following our arrival was a very 
wet one, and we were unable to see much of 
actual farm operations. 
TUE AREA OF THIS FARM 
Embraces about twenty-two thousand acres of 
land. Our visit was in May. Then, eleven thou¬ 
sand acres of this farm had been inclosed, and sub¬ 
Thesc government horses—and he was expect- wages tor (arm w 
ing several thousand more when I was there— farm himself, lie 
are the broken down or worn out horses of the ney at six per-ce: 
army brought here to rest and recruit. Gov- [Ooucluded next 1 
ernment pays for their board, and they roam and - 
graze these broad Champaign pastures, recover THE CASHMEE 
their flesh and strength, and go again into the 
service. It is a good thing for the government, Mr. Moore:—1 
and a good thing for Mr. S., whose broad pas- an early day I v 
tures are thus made profitably productive. Yorker my expe 
Neither sheep nor swine seem to enter to any mere goat, in a .' 
extent into Mr. S.’s system of husbandry. As attempt to redeem 
before asserted, corn and cattle, with Timothy in January, 18." 
hay and seed, are the staple products. And with gentlemen er 
judging from what I gathered from Mr. Sclli- mats. Struck at 
vAvrs conversation, he look* for money in the docility, I sought 
corn and cattle. At any rate, it requires less real value. After 
capital and involves less risk in the management mal teas valuable, 
of large farms, to produce these staples than any profiling myself a 
other that can be named, probably. If the corn introduction into 
will not bring a paying price in its normal state, it, a trial. 1 prnei: 
it is easily and rapidly converted into beef, few grade bucks c 
which will always sell. But while, during sev- These animals we 
eral years past, corn has been low and the times Ohio till the 5th c 
bad for large farm operations, there is now a t 0 try the realiti 
gratifying change. Twenty-two thousand bush- ouul it will be 
els of corn were sold at forty-two cents per 1859-60 that it wa 
bushel from this farm this spring. Five hundred They never, in tin 
tuns of Timothy hay brought the farmer five venienee from cole 
thousand dollars—helping him to make needed To tbese f mck 
improvements, and prepare for a vigorous cam- fv. ni aio goats, whi 
paign. Said he to me, “You ask, and will proha- ] { j dgi j Q breed it 
bly tell, what 1 am doing. You can say I am buc i {S ti ia j ncrea 
not doing what I ought to do; for this is the first abb , fecundity, hi 
good year I have had. ’ common goat, aa 
Mr. S. has been on this farm, himself, but two more ewe hardly 
years. The business of opening a prairie farm birth, and that bi 
involves an enormous expense, without adequate mon goat commo 
return at first. It is like building a ship and in- had one give birt 
vesting a half million in her construction. She four thrifty kids. 
wages for farm work, cannot afford to work a 
farm himself, lie had better sell it, loan his mo¬ 
ney at six per-centuin, and hire out himself.— 
[Concluded next week.] 
■ - ■ — - 
THE CASHMERE GOAT AT THE NORTH. 
Mr. Moore:—I promised last Spring that at 
an early day I would give the Rural New- 
Yckkbr my experience in breeding the Cash- 
mere goat, in a Northern climate, and I now 
attempt to redeem my pledge. 
In January, 1S59, being in Tennessee, I met 
with gentlemen engaged in breeding these ani¬ 
mals. Struck at once with their beauty and 
docility, I sought information concerning their 
real value. After satisfying myself that the ani¬ 
mal i cos valuable, and that there was a chance of 
profiting myself and the people of Ohio by its 
introduction into my State, I determined to give 
it a trial. I procured, that year, in Tennessee a 
few grade bucks of half and three-quarter blood. 
These animals were all young, and did not reach 
Ohio till the 5th of November. They then had 
to try the realities of a cold Northern winter, 
(ami it will be remembered of the winter of 
1859-60 that it. was cold.) and they stood it well. 
They never , in the slightest degree, showed incon¬ 
venience fro m cold. 
To these bucks were bred a lot of common 
female goats, which, in I860, raised a tine lot of 
kids. In breeding common goats to Cashmere 
bucks the increase is very rapid,—the remark¬ 
able fecundity, however, being derived from the 
common goat, as the pure or thorough-bred Cash- 
mere ewe hardly ever has more than one kid at a 
birth, and that but once a year, while the com¬ 
mon goat commonly has two, often three, and I 
had one give birth to and raise without assistance 
result to community from the acquirement of divided into small fields of a section or two, 
large landed estates. And in the newly-settled more or less each. He had a large force build- booK-Kccper aie noin a >. em, ana 
regions, where there is so much unoccupied and ing fence, and a month later he expected to have all Y tmH Y l °-day. Generaliy am a man ot leis- 
uncultivated land, and where every man can twenty thousand acres inclosed with board 'me appai eut y— moi my arm ying on t is 
get a farm by settling on it, the evil is oftener fence. The farm is seven miles long and five loun 8 e '" A large, comforta He, plain lounge m 
imaginary than otherwise. And i have yet to and a half wide. He showed us a map of it. ,bft Lugo sitting-room. l am not idle, I lie here 
learn that one intelligent, liberal, successful Its outlines wore not regular. There were and study—I plan, and 1 have my Lieutenant 
business man is a greater injury in a community notches in the plat caused by sections belonging Colonel, and major to whom give my orders 
than a score of illiterate, bigoted, no-idea men, to other parties indenting or alternating with and directions; theydelivm t le same to my cap- 
who never succeed in anything except in being sections belonging to the Broadland Farm. He ta ' us > ) wbo see tbat ar0 executecl b y 
unsuccessful in their efforts to compete with said some people told him he had land enough; men ‘ 
brains properly disciplined and used. but he told them he wanted to fiiJ out the cor- And yet there are plenty of farmers who do 
But still, I am not disposed to encourage the ners. He said his son suggested—what had not not believe that farmers need brains, or need to 
extension or expansion of farms. There is a occurred to himself—that he should sell off study or use any other force than muscle to suc- 
happy medium, always regulated by the capital, enough land to straighten the lines. ceed in farming. They measure a man’s success 
in cash and brains, of the operator. No one Of the eleven thousand acres under fence at by the amount ot manual labor he fa able to per- 
thinks of denouncing a merchant who buys and the time of our visit, eight thousand acres had form. There are young men growing prema- 
sells more goods at a single operation than his been broken. This amount of breaking had turely old by hard manual labor on a farm, under 
neighbor does in a year. The man with a com- been done during the past seven years—it being the mistaken notion that "they cannot afford to 
prehen sive mind, educated to conduct large only that length of time since his son first pitched pay a hired man ” for doing the work they them- 
operations, and with ample capital, fills his jilace tent on the prairie wilderness and broke the first selves do. A farmer who is successful, told m« 
in society just as worthily—and no more so—as ground. The crops on the ground and being the other day, that he could not afford to labor if 
does the man who semi-annually buys a few put in, are he had more than two men on his place. He could 
hundred dollars worth of goods and deals them Acres. make more money planning work for them and 
out in driblets across his country counter to his Corn .-.i.soo directing their labor. So in the case of Mr. Sul- 
country customers. One makes as many thou- w inter Wheat. . zoo livant —his is the directing brain for ft hundred 
sands of dollars at the single operation as the .. n men. He cannot afford the luxury of manual la- 
other does shillings, perhaps; and yet the opera- " ea " J " ... * 1,50 ° bor. He has no time to hold a plow to turn a 
tor is not necessarily a bad man, nor any injury 3,640 furrow. While his men, under the direction of 
to community. He has probably acquired—not The balance of the eleven thousand acreB competent overseers, are executing the directions 
inherited—the power to perform these opera- inclosed not occupied by root crops which of to-day, ho must plan the work for to-morrow 
tions. In this country few men inherit it. Inher- ar ® incidental only, and tor family use alone or next week, so as to economize time, save labor, 
iting the money, it is rarely the case that the gardens, groves, buildings, tfcc., are tame grass anil accomplish the most with the greatest profit 
ability of the father descends to the child with pasture lands. He calls corn and cattle the sta- j wa3 struck with a remark that a successful mi- 
the lucre. We must therefore judge of the good pi® crop. Oats are not profitable; and com for ner made to me the other night as, sitting in a 
or evil influence of large farms, and large larm- stock is raised so cheaply that roots are not cul- Hotel iu a central town, we discussed the chances 
era, by the manner in which the former are man- tivated. of success. Said he, **1 was a little fellow, not 
aged, and by the character, motive and policy of THK stock large enough to enable me to depend upon my 
the latter. For, as before observed, we have not On this farm consists of about five thousand muscle for success, and 1 have done a heap of 
the same cause for apprehension concerning the head of cattle, and nearly four thousand govern- thinking. I know that the thinking man can 
acquirement of large estates, that we might have ment horses, beside the horses, mules and oxen make money out of the labor of men to whom it 
if laws of entail obtained here. employed in working the land. About seventy- is an act of kindness to employ. It can be done 
ra„»t make many M pywdi fre ighted,)!.he pay „ m i to procure in | ^ 4 ^*favorable circumstance,: 
the interest ou the investment Anil she may pair of puie Cashmeres, hut was unsuccessful. T , pM ik wa3 ,, adly w i n ,„ r . k ui„i. 
meet with a storm an,I to,.Oder at sea the tot , ol rto,l f„ r sucU , pair * 2 ,MO, hut my proposi- J (] , lmve em 4 rsM „* 
trip-such a result being no fault of the owner lion was refused, as the parties declined soiling at wll , bc sh( , rtTOP ,, fll | 1? „„,.h«)f 
nor master; or she may, with plenty ot freight pure bloods at any price. In December, DM, |,„ TC |, y . But not only weevils anil Hessian, are 
and passengers, or fortunate seutures, pay lor non. Wuxi.* H. Stilus, of Georgia, received ^ b ,„ chintz bug, and one or 
herself quickly. from their native country, in Asia, eight head of tw0 other fties or bug8) t0 say nothing about 
So with a large farm. The elements of nature goats, which lie ordered in 1856. Shortly alter occasional visitations from grasshoppers, locusts, 
may richly reward the generous confidence of the their arrival I opened a correspondence with a worms and the like. But to say no more 
husbandman, or ruin his hopes as suddenly.- Mr. Stiles, and in March, I860, bought of him abo1)t wheat) w0 find the corn and 0 ats hardly 
Success in such cases depends on so many ad- six of his imported animals, viz., one buck and lesR fortunate, w hile certain kinds of fruit cun 
vantageous circumstances that it is scarcely possi- five ewes, three of which dropped kids in May BCftrce jy be ra j sed at all, and none that I know of 
bleto predict what will follow any prescribed following my purchase. In the fall of 1800 I eflcapes entirely The apples and peaches in this 
policy. bought, in Tennessee, sixteen grade females, era- localUy aro puTlc tured by the curculio, or some- 
TUE FARM OPERATIONS bracing 1-2, .VI, 7-8 and 15-Di bloods. About the ^fog similar, and I judge fully one-third the 
Hare, are conducted on a largo and systematic 8ame tim0 1 Pf^m-ed anot ;her lot of common f orTO er, and many of the latter, grown on sandy 
scale. Said Mu. S. to me, “My bead farmer and goat8 ’ wh r K ' h 1 hav ‘‘ 5* Bce * ais ® d atKJt i H ' 1 ' ridges, fall prematurely to the ground,and many 
book-keeper are both absent, and I am nnnsn- cr0 P of kld8 ' I ^e now in my herd Imported tbat r( . ina ; n on t Le tree 3 grow pithy and one- 
ally busy to-day. Generally I am a man of leis- f took ’ 1 ” 1 i re hloods , ,m ' 11)1 0,u(> ,rom the an ™ als sided; and if we turn even to the forest trees we 
nre apparently—I work my farm lying on this im P orU ' d b / Mr ; hT1, ‘ ES > ^ adc9 bm fr0 “ find them not exempt. 
lounge.” A large, comfortable, plain lounge in buc <* and a " d a,8 ° th « A nd now we come to the inquiry, Where Is 
the large sitting-room. “I am not idle, I lie here Z7pTZ7' *> - a Ration -y to ask but tough to 
and study—I plan, and I have my Lieutenant . , answer. Nature, we know, in conformity to the 
Colonel, and major to whom I give my orders d would 8a /> ?*>’ bat anungements ot her Divine Author, works har- 
and directions; they deliver the same to my cap- * !We8 **'*-• emse v ,a uus x w en pure juc's m 0 n j 0rt8 jy a || ber par ^ though often mysteri- 
tains, who see that they are executed by the G « D : and low * rad . e * ZTj where her laws are not understood: Yet 
, - bred from bucks imported by Dr. Davis. Jtwill y ,, „ 
men. , . . a f _. . , .. we need have no tears about her having m store 
„ thus bo seen that in my flock is combined the , 
And yet there are plenty of farmers who do blood ot th „ threo importations. an ( ‘ flf ' c,lial remed Y ft g alQ0t an over-production 
not believe that farmers need brains, or need to ,, , , . . ’ . . even of the insects. Some of the best minds of 
study or use any other force than muscle to sue- My.bait bloods have beautiful wool, the fibers dlQ ftge bave d i r0 cted us to look to science for a 
ceed iu farming. They measure a man’s success °* mea8 'i 1 ^ aboid 1 JIC '° mcbes j hlmxls aolution oftiiis great problem, which I would not 
by the amount of manual labor he ia able to per- havc wo ° l as rich ,n a PP earanc ® and , as dne as oppose, yet at the same time suggest not to lose 
form. There are young men growing prema- P' 1 ™ b wool—it mcasmes fmm live to six gjgjjtof (heold maxim that “one bird in the hand 
tnrely old by hard manual labor on a farm, under '"ches; 7-8 blood wool is almost as long as pure, , g wortlj two j tl the bush;” but what is worst of 
the mistaken notion that “they cannot afford to and blood w0 ° |. s ®‘* Uid n evoly reH D e p t |° a u ( neither the bird ia the hand bos been used, 
pay a hired man” for doing the work they them- p,ir .°' . >n account ot tbe pma oumbe ^ 01 ** nor much inducement offered to catch the one in 
selves do. A farmer who is successful, told me “ak's heretofore imported to tins county the tbebusbt Had §50,000 l>een offered twenty years 
the other day, that he could not afford to labor if P um ,C1 0 plue b a? P 0 ^ 1 '‘ 3 '? . in ni ( ’ 1 ‘ a f ' 8 ago as a standing premium to any one who would 
he had more than two men on his place. He could comparatively small, but ot high grade goats, give a pract5caI r , me dy for the weevil, as much 
make more money planning work for them and hearing wool worth as much iu the maiket a« mor( . Por tbo nessian fly, and a proportionate 
directing their labor. .So in the case of Mr. Sr l- p,ire blood w ° o1 ’ thpr « a f ,! hnnc and , th,! ? 13 amount for the other insect destroyers, a thou- 
livant —his is the directing brain for a hundred 0D « ^commendation to the animal, viz, ^ mindg would bave bcen at work day and 
men. He cannot afford the Inxury of manual la- uklDg tb ‘‘ worthless domestic animal we night upou t ] ie problem, where it has not received 
bor. He has no time to hold a plow to turn a Poised and from it. by crossing with the Cash- aalngle thoilght There Is not a grain-growing 
furrow. While his men, under the direction of merP bl ‘ ck ’ cai 8 <> an animal the merit and value gtat( , in th(J Union but C0l)Id we |i afford such a 
competent overseers, are executing the directions >v c Cannot e enlei ' premium. But a most unfortunate if not fatal 
of to-day, he must plan the work for to-morrow Our experience in Ohio is that goats are less j d g a has been to not try the known remedy while 
or next week, so as to economize time, save labor, trouble and expense than sheep. 1 have win- we have bcen wailing for the unknown. It is 
and accomplish the most with the greatest profit, tered them without shelter, but on account of always much better for the farmer to turn some- 
I was struck with a remark that a successful mi- cold rain and sleet I recommend the use of sheds, thing np, than to “ wait for something to turn 
ner made to me the other night as, sitting in a and for this purpose open sheds are as good as np .- *• Well, what is the known remedy?” says 
hotel iu a central town, we discussed the chances any. It is not the cold , but the water which ont >. I Ha y remedy, for I know but one. The 
of success. Said he, **1 was a little fellow, not makes them uncomfortable. In the winter they various washings, powderings and fumings, 
large enough to enable me to depend upon my prefer corn fodder to hay, and iu summer the c aa b ^ regarded as little else than failures; and 
muscle for success, and 1 have done aheap of coarsest feed they can find suits them best. 1 though digging cut-worms up from about your 
thinking. I know tbat the thinking man can have found them of great service in destroying plants and cutting them in twain, picking rose- 
make money out of the labor of men to whom it briars and bushes. bugs from your grapes and dropping them into 
is an act of kindness to employ. It can be done Inclosed please find a few marked samples of boiling water, the jarring off curculios into Bheets 
if laws of entail obtained here. 
Such was the result of my mental discussion five horses are used as teams, nearly or quite as on the farm as well as in the mine.” The farmer 
the subject, when, one moonlit May evening, many oxen, and only a few mules, I believe. who cannot afford to pay a common laborer fair 
INSECTS-A REMEDY. 
The myriad hosts of insects now contending 
with the farmer for his products are a cause of 
more serious alarm for the future success of the 
agricuUnrisUhan. perhaps, all others put together. 
Could a correct estimate bo hud of all the losses 
to the American farmer from this cause alone, it 
would constitute a sum sufficient to pay every 
dollar incident to the crushing out of the slave¬ 
holders’ rebellion, colonize every master in Bot¬ 
any Bay, educate every slave und give each ten 
acres of laud, pay the expenditures of Ibis Gov¬ 
ernment for the next, fifty years, (including all 
Floyd and Breslin leakages.) build the Pacific 
Railroad, and give each inhabitant a free ticket 
to San Francisco and back. Losses can often be 
counted by thousands of dollars to single indi¬ 
viduals in a season. Vermont, once hardly less 
celebrated than Genesee for its wheat fields, has 
for many years been abandoned to the rapa¬ 
cious weevil, except a crop or two from newly 
cleared lands. And much of New England, part 
of New York and the Canadas have been little 
less fortunate. It was estimated that the north 
half of the State of Ohio, in the crop of 1861, 
paid a penalty to this insignificant little pest of 
move than 9,000,000 bushels of wheat. And the 
following year it would have been no less had 
there been an equal amount grown for its recep¬ 
tion. 
The Hessian fly fortweniy years or morehasbeen 
paying his respects to the wheat, fields in North¬ 
ern Ohio, and in North-Western Ohio the present 
crop will be shortened by hundreds of thousands 
of bushels, not directly, but indirectly, from this 
depre dator . The wheat, to escape this insect, 
must not be sown unlit frosty nights begin to 
appear, which leaves insufficient time for it to 
attain a growth to cover the ground to protect its 
roots against the frost; hence it must winter-kill, 
except under the most, favorable circumstances. 
The present crop was badly winter-killed, arid 
all with whom I have conversed agree that the 
present crop will be shortened fully one-half 
thereby. But not only weevils and Hessians are 
to be considered, but, the chintz bug, and one or 
two other flies or bugs, to say nothing about 
occasional visitations from grasshoppers, locusts, 
army worms and the like. But to say no more 
about wheat, we find the corn and oats hardly 
less fortunate, while certain kinds of fruit cun 
scarcely be raised at all, and none that I know of 
escapes entirely. The apples and peaches in this 
locality are punctured by the curculio, or some¬ 
thing similar, and I judge fully one-third the 
former, and many of the latter, grown on sandy 
ridges, fall prematurely to the ground,and many 
that remain on the trees grow pithy and one¬ 
sided; and if we turn even to the forest trees we 
find them not exempt. 
And now we come to the inquiry, Where Is 
the. remedy?—n question easy to ask but tough to 
answer. Nature, we know, in conformity to the 
arrangements of her Divine Author, works har¬ 
moniously in all her par ts, though often mysteri¬ 
ously where her laws are not understood. Yet 
wo need have no fears about her having in store 
an effectual remedy against an over-production 
even of the insects. Some of the best minds of 
1 the age have directed us to look to science for a 
1 solution of this great problem, which ! would not 
s oppose, yet at the same time suggest not to lose 
sightof the old maxim that “one bird in the hand 
1 is worth two in the bush;” but what fa worst of 
' all, neither the bird in the hand has been used, 
nor much inducement offered to catch the one in 
! the bush. Had $50,000 been offered twenty years 
' ago as a standing premium to any one who would 
give a practical remedy for the weevil, as much 
! more for the Hessian fly, and a proportionate 
amount for the other insect destroyers, a thou- 
’ sand minds would have been at work day and 
1 night upon the problem, where it has not received 
a single thought There fa not a grain-growing 
3 State in the Union hut could well afford such a 
premium. But a most unfortunate it not fatal 
’ idea has been to not try the known remedy while 
• we have been wailing for the unknown. It is 
f always much better for the farmer to turn some- 
thing np, than to L - wait for something to turn 
s np.” “ Well, what fa the known remedy?” says 
ii one. I say remedy, for I know hut one. The 
7 various washings, powderings and fumings, 
° can be regarded as little else than failures; and 
1 though digging cut-worms up from about your 
Cashmere wool of my own raising. 
Granville, Ohio, July, 1863. 8 . S. Williams. 
and burning them, are effectual remedies in 
themselves, yet they cannot be employed to a. 
