PATENT 
’’ochest^R 
NT. 
gwtffuttural and cfjuerirsf 
ugar; 1 goblet flour; l teaspoon cream tartar. 
Cookies. Two cup6 butter; 3 cups flour; 4 
Q £S 6 ; hj teaspoou saleratus; flour to roll thin. 
I would thank some of your readers for a good 
recipe for pie crust. Mrs. F. L. Canandai¬ 
gua, N. Y. 
Quickening Vegetation.—A s the season has been 
so backward, it may be an object to farmers to accel- 
lerate the vegetation of their garden sniff by a little 
extra labor. This may be done by placing boards 
over the rows or hills where seeds are planted, as this 
prevents the ammonia from uscapfug and coniines its 
power to the germination nf the seed at the point 
most needed. As the plants push up through the soil 
the covering should be raised a little, and soon free 
scope given to them. 
THE TREE CURCULIO 
In the April number of the Practical Ento¬ 
mologist there was a long and interesting arti¬ 
cle from the editor, Benj. D. Walsh, in refer¬ 
ence to the common curculio and its allies. 
The family of American snout-beetles is divided 
into three groups, each of which is specifically 
described, its form, mode of propagation and 
habits delineated- Neither of these is known 
in the Pacific States. The snout-beetles, as a 
family, says Mr. W., are distinguished from al¬ 
most all other beetles by the front part of the 
head being more or less prolonged into a snout, 
which, in some genera, is as fine as a hair, and 
in others about as wide as the head itself, and 
at the tip of which the jaws are placed. This 
snout, being part and parcel ol’ the head, is 
consequently immovable, except along with the 
head; so that it cannot be confounded with the 
beak or proboscis ol’ the true bugs and the two- 
winged flies, or with the tongue of the butter¬ 
flies and moths. 
The true curculio—the one especially destruct¬ 
ive to fruits—may be distinguished from the other 
snout-beetle by having on the middle of each of 
its wing-cases an elongate, knife-edged hump, 
which is black and shining, so as to resemble a 
piece Of black sealing-wax. Behind these two 
humps there is usually placed a broad clay-yel¬ 
low band, marked in the middle with white; 
bnt sometimes this entire band is white. 
The female makes her appearance about the 
time the plums are the size of a hazel-nut, She 
fastens upon the young fruit, and with the 
minute jaws on the tip of her snout makes 
the crescent-shaped slit in the skin of the fruit 
which has secured to her the popular name of 
the “ little Turk.” In this slit, with the same 
instrument which made it, she makes a hole, 
such as a pin would do, to a depth correspond¬ 
ing with the length of the snout, enlarging the 
bottom of the cavity somewhat. In this hole 
she depositee a single egg, and crowds it down¬ 
ward into the cavity at the bottom 
Why Not.— We can see no reason why D. B. 
De Land & Co.’s Ilcst Chemical Saleratus should 
not he used in all cases, us it has no superior, 
and weighs more than other Saleratus. 
Soft Soap for Five Cents a Gallon.—D is¬ 
solve one pound of Pyle’s O K Soap in three 
gallons of hot water, according to directions on 
each bar, and you have it. Sold by grocers 
generally. 
I AKD*i Blooming op Trees.—T his has been a very 
backward season for fmit trees. Ordinarily the 
cherry trees arc full-robed by the first of May, while 
now, on the 17th of the month, not more than half 
the buds have expanded into blossoms. This tardi¬ 
ness may be atoned for in fruit, as the chanees of | n . 
Jury by frost urc thereby diminished. 
Apple Trek Caterpillars.—S everal correspond¬ 
ents have favored us with communications respecting 
these pests. They recommend various ways for de¬ 
stroying them, but. all agree in urging a vigilant war¬ 
fare. Now Is the time to kill them while in the nest; 
later In the season, when they spread, it will be im¬ 
possible to destroy them. 
^ CONN. * 
The Cheapest and Beat Ventilating' Bas¬ 
ket for Marketing- Strawberries, &c. 
Illustrated Circulars sent free. 
Hellebore for toe Currant Worm.— The currant 
and gooseberry bushes will richly repay good care 
No fruit is more grateful in hot summer weather. 
Where the currant worm infests them remember that 
the best remedy is white Hellebore, powdered and 
sifted on the bushes when wel with dew. It can be 
obtained atony of the druggists, aud should be applied 
as often as the worms appear. 
PARKERS 
fruit _ 
G A THERE]* 
Drying Fruit. — “Yorick” wants some person, 
having the requisite information, to write out for the 
Rural some good plan for drying cherries, plums, 
berries, &c., on an extended scale, and thus oblige 
him and many others seeking like information. Who 
will respond ? 
r lltKKU’S PATENT 
eh. Send tor Circulars, 
8clo, Alley any Co., N. Y. 
FRUIT GATHER. 
HOLDEN & HOW add 
SKU-tf 
ORT-HORNS. — Two Young Hulls and 
^ several hull Calves, Lows and IU-ifer Calves for sale 
cheap. Also, Suffolk and Cheshire Pies, bv 
w, - !t J. TALCOTT, Rome, N. V. 
P O It I A It I. E ST E A ITI E N G ( \ES~ 
Combining the maximum of miR-lency, durability 
ana economy with the minimum of weight and price 
they are widely and favorably known, more than 600 
being In use All warranted satisfactory, or no sale. 
D SS?!iC Mvc circulars sent. apliUeiiUon, Address 
^MH-.ot J. C. HOADLKY ds CO.. Lawrence, Mass. 
O sage orange need, i have 
lust received direct from Texas a lot of fresh seed 
™. I will send by mat!, at fl $ m.or by Express at 
fi® PJjiishol. j . 3. MKSEROI.K, Chicago Agricultural 
Warehouse and heed 8tore, 204 Lake St.,Chicago, Ill. 
Apple Tree Wasil— (W. J. P., Pa.) Some of our 
correspondents recommend pure, strong lye as a 
wash f6r the bark of apple trees. Others soft soap, 
diluted so as to be applied easily. Whale oil soap 
suds is a good wash. 
“ Where the tree is not very large, and a limb 
of an inch or two in diameter can be conven¬ 
iently spared, it is a good plan to saw off such a 
limb so as to leave a short stump to strike with 
the mallet in the jarring process. Otherwise, If 
the trank Itself has to be struck, it becomes 
necessary to pad the mallet to prevent Injuring 
the bark. Where trees are quite large, Dr. 
Thimble recommends that a common mop-stick 
be padded at the end and applied successively to 
the leading limbs, one after the other,” 
The conclusion of the whole matter seems to 
be this: If we want frail wc must, fight for it; 
not by fits and starts, but constantly, during the 
proper seasons, and fly lit to kill. • 
years longer. Experiment vindicated the effect¬ 
iveness of this mode of treatment. 
The Wine Plant Again .— We learn from the 
Farmer’s Advertiser that the Chillicothe Spec¬ 
tator—we do not see this journal—on the au¬ 
thority of a Mr. Williams, quotes the Rubai, 
New-Yorker as an iudorser of the “ Wine 
Plant ” enterprise. This the former paper calls 
a “joke on the Rural.” Were it worth while 
we conid characterize it by u mow? emphatic 
name. The wine plant affair wtys referred to in 
these columns in terms suited t^- the imposture 
sought to be palmed off on the public by the 
parties interested In the sale of a miserably poor 
imitation of wine. 
ncilying. — The Prairie Farmer states that 
owing to the high prices of fencing materials 
and the difficulty of getting thd-qit, must lead, 
and is leading, to a general adoption of the 
hedge for all outside farm enclosures. For this 
purpose the Osugo is the main reliance in the 
prairie region south and southwest of 43° N., 
aud in some eases still higher than this. Most 
of the seed now used is brought from Texas 
and Arkansas, and is obtained by peeling the 
orange as wo do an apple—passing them through 
a roller-mill, when the pulp floats off and the 
seeds sink to the bottom. The seeds are dried 
and run through a fanning mill, when they are 
ready to market. 
Grapes — Over-cropping, — The Magazine of 
Horticulture for May contains some readable 
“ notes on grapes,” by J. F. C. Hyde, from 
which we quote the following: — “ One great 
evil is over-cropping the vines, and all cultiva¬ 
tors should be careful to thin the fruit, when 
too many bunches set. It needs courage to do 
it, but the good of the vines requires it. There 
will be seasons, like the last, when the grape 
grower will loosu courage, and feel that there 
are too many difficulties to be overcome to 
make the crop a reliable one for persons of only 
ordinary attainments in grape culture. But the 
horticulturist, of all others, should exercise 
Sometimes 
two or three excavations and depositions are 
made on a single plum, but she is generally 
satisfied with one perforation and deposite. 
This process ia repeated on others till her stock 
of eggs Is exhausted —about twenty or twenty- 
live in all. These eggs, in a few days, hatch a 
whitish legless grab with a scaly head, which 
eats its way through the plum causing St to 
drop prematurely from the tree, the gum being 
Been to exude from the original puncture. Hav¬ 
ing reached the ground, with the fallen fruit, 
the larva bores its way out and penetrates the 
soil a few inches and in a cavity there changes 
into the pupa state. A few weeks thereafter it 
emerges in the form of a perfect beetle—ready 
Proceedings of the Alton Horticultural So¬ 
ciety.— We are Indebted to James E. Stark, Esq., 
Secretary or the above named Society, for proof 
sheets, from the local press, of their proceedings. 
T HIIE’N improved potato planter 
No liibor-eanng umcUiue, devoted to agriculture, 
at all comparable to H! 
Saves the Labor of Twelve Men! 
Makes Its own burrow, on any ground mat can l>.- plow, 
ud,— cuts, drop* and coyer* potatoes as fast as ahorse 
run wulkj-—anti tlous it hotter, bec.nufio with greater votr< 
ularlty, than possible by the hand method. Rights ami 
machines for sale, send for Circulars. Address f i 
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P jMWPLOYIWENT LIGHT WORK-UOOf] 
j pay. rtoc New Book but. Sent, (If.Ht itost. oil rf.o.H 
Sawdust as a mulch for strawberries sometimes 
lessens their value in market. 
WASHES FOR FRUIT TREES, 
Several correspondents have answered the 
query, “ What is a good wash for trees ? ” 
“ Chemung ” recommends “ soft soap, thinned 
so that it will run easily. Use an old broom 
and wash the upper side of the limbs thorough¬ 
ly. If the trees are old, spread manure under 
them and over aspace as the limbs extend. This 
wash is also good for Hie borer; to prevent its 
attacks I have sometimes wound young trees 
with brown paper and rags, tied on with twine 
close to the ground. Saturate these with the 
liquid und no borers will trouble the trees.” 
”E. O. H.” has tried strong lye, with all the 
salt thrown in it which It will dissolve. The 
effect was good. 
J. 8 . Tibbits says, “ a wash made of strong 
ashes, mixed with water from the barn yard, and 
made to the consistency of common whitewash 
and applied with a broom, is the cheapest and 
best wash for fruit trees that I have ever used.” 
with the exception ol pears and quiuccs. These 
it rarely attempts to molest. Apples arc much 
injured many times by being perforated or bored 
out by the labors of this pest of the fruit grower. 
It is supposed that a large proportion of these 
beetles perish In the ground in the pupa state 
for the lack of the necessary moisture to perfect 
their growth. This is supposed to explain the 
reason why fair crops of plains are obtained on 
clayey soils almost every year without taking 
the precautions essential to success on moister 
ones. These precautions, according to the arti¬ 
cle from which the preceding is condensed, are: 
1st. Gather up and destroy h 11 the wormy 
fruit, as fast as it falls from the tree, and before 
the larva has had time to leave the fruit and re¬ 
tire under-ground. Thus you nip the evil in the 
bud. The cheapest and easiest and most “ West¬ 
ern ” method, is to allow a gang of hogs the 
range of the orchard—hogs being very fond of 
green fruit and not having any squeamish scru¬ 
ples about the worms contained in it. This is 
the practice adopted by Dr. Hull of Alton, Il¬ 
linois, one of the most successful plum-growers 
in the West. Sheep and cows will also eat green 
fruit; but then they will also browse upon 
the trees, and perhaps occasionally bark them. 
Where hogs are objectionable, cither because 
other crops are grown under the same fence 
with the fruit-trees, or because the sense of 
propriety and neatness is offended by the habits 
of these animals, all that remains to be done is 
to hire that work done by human hands, which 
the hogs will do gratuitously and thank you for 
the chance. In any ease, the work must be done, 
systematleallyaml regularly. It will be no earthly 
use to pick up and destroy the fallen fruit, after 
the larva has left it and gone under-ground. 
By destroying the worm-eaten fruit, as it falls, 
the crop of curculios for the succeeding year is, 
by so much, diminished. 
“2d. Jar your trees regularly every day, catch¬ 
ing and destroying all the curculios that fall 
therefrom. But recollect that the tree must be 
suddenly jarred, not slowly and gradually shaken; 
for the wind shakes the boughs of every tree 
continually, and yet the curculios do not fall to 
the ground in consequence. But how are we to 
catch the “little Turk,” after he has fallen to 
the ground V Thimble recommends a large 
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Jf'-D latest. Improvement, patented Aug., i860 l’rti-e 
Mete m Vm r d?w n ^ 8e ’ w,th «**'»•&! &c., all com* 
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KtasK'asJasi 
on view lit the Salesroom. ExpertenentlAgcnta w n*ert° 
manner: At noon, (lor two large loaves,) boil 
four large potatoes soft; mash them very fine; 
mix with them enough of the water in which 
they were boiled to make them us thin as yeast; 
when cool, add the hop yeast and let it stand 
till evening; then add more water, and flour to 
make a sponge. In the morning knead in a 
piece of butter the size of a butternut. 
Nice Fried Cakes. —Take 1 pint of butter¬ 
milk; 1 egg; 1 c-up sugar; a piece of butter as 
large as a hen’s egg; a little ginger; 1 teaspoon 
soda. Knead as soft as you can roll out. 
Ginger Snaps. — i}' cups molasses; cup 
sugar; % cup bnttcr; 1 teaspoon soda,dissolved 
m a halt-cup ol hot water; 1 teaspoou ginger. 
Mix stiff; roll thin. 
Excellent Cookies.—1 cup sour cream; 1% 
cups sugar; a piece of butter nearly as large 
as a hen s egg; 1 teaspoon soda. Season with 
caraway seed or nutmeg.—H. H. H., Perry Cen¬ 
ter, N. Y. 
Eds. Rural :—Please accept a young house¬ 
keeper’s “mite” for the “Domestic Economy” 
of your valuable paper. The following recipes 
1 know to be good: 
Yeast.— 3 large potatoes; 1 large handful of 
hops; put the hops In a bag and boil them with 
the potatoes in two quarts of water; take the 
potatoes out and mash in an earthen dish; strain 
the hop water on them ; then add 2 tablespoons 
flour; 1 tablespoon ginger; % eup suit; l cup 
sugar or molasses; when cool add the yeast and 
HINTS ABOUT ROSES, 
Young Seedlings which are up should be 
protected both from excessive wet or drouth. 
Budded or grafted roses should he looked after 
and diligence used to prevent stocks growing 
from their own wood instead of throwing their 
strength into the buds or grafts. Look out for 
sorts you wish to bud with; the latter part of 
J unc this work may be begun on strong-growing 
branches. Plant roses ont in borders for sum¬ 
mer blooming, and watch for the green fly and 
rose bug. Support strong-growing shoots so 
the wind will not break them, and pinch in aud 
rub off superfluous branches, so as to form prop¬ 
erly shaped bushes. 
G0ED0N ^ 0KA ^ 
ljltop. JOHNSON S FltRTUlK 
J will more than doable your crop 20 to 30 days h 
. -. Corn at ho buHhcls per acre, wfunU live were 
«l.Vty , pliliipktl ) 1 ‘Mi tn 1711 n w 
watermelon Wetfhtng 5 i ^ sis 
ottu-ryuaetablcs, which greatly surpassed 
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POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP, 
Fruit Prospects — Illinois .—According to the 
Springfield (HI.) Register the fruit orchards of 
Central and Southern Illinois were never before 
laden with so rich a bloom. The apple, peach 
aud pear are alike clad in robes of white and 
pink, while the smaller fruits afford equally flat¬ 
tering hopes of a successful fruitage each in 
their season. 
Grape Vines .—Amateur grape growers can en¬ 
large their sphere of operations very materially, 
if desirable, in a very cheap way, according to 
the statement of “ B. T.” in the Cultivator. He 
says“ Pin- a long branch down into a shallow 
trench, and when all the buds have made u 
growth of several inches, gradually All the 
trench up with earth; checking, by pinching, 
any disposition ol some shoots to out-grow the 
others.” 
,Strawberry—Productiveness Prolonged .— A cor¬ 
respondent of the Cultivator aud Country Gen¬ 
tlemen says the productiveness of strawberry 
beds may be greatly prolonged in thmway;— 
After the l’ruit Is gathered, take good, rich com¬ 
post and lay It around the plants to the depth of 
an inch or more. By this means the hoU is 
brought up to meet the wants of the plants, in¬ 
suring their productiveness for a number of 
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Kiral/iut allowing tbeincelveii tribe deceived by Inferior 
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