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PROGRESS AND IMPROVEMENT.” 
pays of this louae, had I the time and you the space. 
Maybe I'll refer to it again, 
There are six other insects which are talked of. 
Hie report is aide and readable—a part of it funny 
m the extreme—all of it instructive. It is a great 
thing to have a State Eutomologist, is’nt it?—es¬ 
pecially a live one. Incog. 
MOORE’S BUBAL NEW-YORKER, 
AN ORIGINAL WEEKLY 
AGRICULTURAL, LITERARY AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
CONDUCTED BY D. D. T. fttOORE, 
(rUBLJSKER AND PROPRIETOR,) 
With a Corps of Able Associates and Contributors, 
SCIENTIFIC FARMING: 
COLLKGE FARMS— WILL T1IST PAY? 
Piie value of Scientific Farming has been discus¬ 
sed until the question is threadbare, and yet it is 
one which may well bear a little further considera¬ 
tion. The success of Agriculture, is a subject, in 
which all are interested, whether they are farmers 
or not. Any improvement that will enable the 
wheat grower to raise larger crops is a blessing 
not only to the farmer, but. to every poor team- 
stress and to every newsboy that occasionally 
Indulges In the luxury of a penny loaf. The 
subject may have been worn threadbare, but it 
has not loht. either in interest or in importance. 
Our attention has been recently called to it by 
some 
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X&~ All Business Letters, Contributions. &c., should be 
addressed to Rochester until otherwise announced. 
The season, thus far, has been highly and unusu¬ 
ally favorable for getting seed into the ground. 
Winter loosed his grasp suddenly and tied rapidly in 
rushing torrents, covering his retreat with but few and 
brief storms and squalls. Spring swiftly advanced 
with bright, snnny days and southern breezes, and 
lo, the ground lay bare and brown, and the furrow 
crumbled as it rolled from t,he burrowing plowshare. 
To the vast region which suffered so severely from 
the great drouth of last fear, spring brought, as a 
compensation, the fairest and most prosperous seed¬ 
ing time known in years, So u large breadth l as 
been sown to spring wheat in the Prairie States, and 
barley and oats in the Middle and Northern, and 
the seed was in the ground early and the soil was 
capable of being put in the best condition to receive 
it. If the farmer has performed his work as circum¬ 
stances have allowed him to do it, nothing but an 
adverse growing season can bar him from a rich rec¬ 
ompense for his labor. The season is beyond his 
control and if he has the consciousness of duty per¬ 
formed he should abide the result with faith and 
cheerfulness. 
Planting Com.—This is the chief and rnoBt im¬ 
portant work of May; a good preparation of the 
ground will save much work in tilling the crop. 8<>d 
ground should be plowed with the jointer plow, 
which laps the furrow-edgo under, and the harrow 
can then put two or three, or more, inches of dbt 
over every grass blade aud root. Large stone 
should be picked from theMield before harrowing, 
and if the soil is dry enough put on the roller, in 
case of drouth the plant will grow quicker from a 
roijed and compacted soil, than from a loose, porous 
one. Look out for good see d corn, and try a sam pie 
in the house to ascertain if it will grow. The aim 
of the farmer, after providing for a good crop, 
should be to do as much of the work with horses 
aud machines as possible. Cover shallow and plant 
On the top of the ground. Some soak the seed, if 
late iu the season, but it is a dangerous practice. 
JUato&t .—Seed may be cut two or three weeks 
before planting; some aver it will do better thus 
treated. Two good eyes iu a hill are enough of 
most varieties. Furrow out slightly and cover 
remarks which have appeared in the 
'd Agriculturist from the pen of the author of 
“ Walks and Talks.” “ It would require,” he 
says, “ pretty conclusive evidence to make mo 
believe that, any purely scientific mau hu t made 
farming pay.” .Further on he remarks“It 
will not be long before every State has its Agri¬ 
cultural College. We ought not to ask or expect 
two much from them, or we shall be disappointed. 
Ihe farms connected with them cannot aud will 
not pay.” 
What, is a “ purely scientific man ?” Is it a man 
who is most thoroughly acquainted with one or 
more sciences, and who is acquainted with nothing 
dee ■ If so, then of eoursc a purely scientific man 
cannot inako farming pay or anything else pay. 
Farming is an art as well as a science. If a man 
does not tinderstaud the art of farming ho bad bet¬ 
ter not undertake to farm. But the same Is true of 
science itself. Chemistry is an art as well as n. 
This Reaper, which our illustration admirably points of this rpaper are simplicity, good material 
portrays, has been in operation only four years, but and workmanship, a six-feet cut, very light draft, 
its many excellent points have won for it a multi- (which was proved at the gredt Auburn trial,) and 
tilde of friends, and placed it in an enviable position Johnston’s Automatic Rake, which received the 
before the public. It is designed strictly for a bar- first premium at that trial over many competitors, 
vester and is not a combined machine, the manufac- This rake is self working, or it may be adjusted to 
Hirers believing they can better meet the wants and regulate the size of the gavels at the will of the dri 
serve the interests of farmers by building the reaper ver. It is a muchine especially well adapted to 
aud mower separate, and adapting them in every Western grain fields. For further information we 
BOGS. 
Illinois’ “Acting Eutomologist” is a “brick.” 
(T am not paid for puffing him,) He is not a Demo¬ 
cratic “ brick” or any other political “brick;” but 
a man who has common-sense coupled with an ex¬ 
tensive knowledge of hugs. And he means to make 
this knowledge of practical value to the agricultur¬ 
ists aud horticulturists of Illinois. To this end he 
has issued his Hrst report on the Noxious Insects of 
Illinois. Notwithstanding his science ho is not the 
dullest and dry cut writer known to fame. lie in¬ 
vests his bug-talk with an interest not common with 
8 cientitic men who walk upon scientific stilts. Lie 
tells us common folk about the Grape Curculio 
(Cadeodes iurqtudis, dAY,) which Is Injuriug our grapes 
seriously, especially in Southern Illinois, where it is 
asserted t.o be more destructive to that fruit than 
the rot which entirely prevents success with some 
varieties. The only mode of preventing the rav¬ 
ages of this pest suggested, is to shake it from the 
vines as the plum and peach curculio Is caught and 
destroyed. 
Mr. Walsh tells us, too, of the Grape-leaf Gali- 
Iouhc (Dactylotpheera vile folia, Fitch ) Your Sl ate 
In regard to the farms attached to the Agricul¬ 
tural Colleges we would ike to ask if the Michigan 
College Farm does not “pay?” We understand 
that it does, and the only farm of the kind within 
oui knowledge that has not paid, certainly canuofc 
accuse science or ils failure. On these farms there 
will always be large expenses for experiments. 
These will not pay directly in cash, and of them a 
separate account should bo kept. Moreover these 
farms ought to be in a large measure managed with 
a view to instruction. Good specimens of the dif¬ 
ferent breeds of domestic animals should be kept, 
and this to an extent that a mere money making 
farmer would consider injudicious. The same is 
true in regard to crops and for all these peculiar 
uecest ,iics ample allowance ought to be made, and 
we have sufficient faith in the good sense of the 
public to believe that it will be made. But if the 
general farming operations of our Agricultural Col¬ 
leges do not pay, then tney will fail in one of their 
chief objects, for they will fail to teach that kind of 
farming which alone can be adopted as a business — 
the fanning that pays. 
But the point in Mr. Harris’ article to which we 
chiefly take exception, is the followingSome 
time ago I was repoited as sayiog that we wanted 
young meu of capital, intelligence aud enterprise 
who should engage iu farming with a determination 
to make it pay. If I said so I spoke thoughtlessly, 
for It is not my idea at all. We want Intelligent 
educated men who love farming, and who are deter- 
Borer (^Hfyerla polistifonnie, Harris,) which resem¬ 
bles the common Peach Borer (uHgeria aritoscr, 
Say,) but unlike the latter, its larva lives exclu¬ 
sively underground, the mother moth depositing 
her eggs on the collar of the grape viue, close to 
the earth, and the yonDg larv.e, as soon as they 
hatch out, descending onto the roots. 
Mr. Walsh says both Harris and Dr JFitch seem 
to doubt the fact that thereare two distinct broods 
of the Apple-worm or Coddllng-worm moth (C'ar- 
pocapsa ponumdla , Linnrus,) every year; hut at 
Rock Island, HI., he is satisfied there are really two 
distinct broods; and he gives his reasons for bo '>e- 
lieviog iu detail. 
^ Considerable apace is also devoted to the Apple 
maggot fiy ( Trypeta pomonellu, Walsh,) which, un¬ 
like the Apple-worm, is a native American species, 
! which feeds upon our native haws or thorn apple.-, 
aud probably our native crabs, also, aud which he 
has known to exist here five or six years. In the 
East it has atttacked the cultivated apple, but uot 
in the West so far as is known. 
The Rascal Leaf-crumpler (Phycila nebula, Walsh,) 
is a small moth which infests apple, crab and plum 
trees iu Northern Illinois, the larvm traveling about 
in a little crooked horn or case, and tying together 
with silken threads the terminal leaves of young 
twigs, lne'ule of which it feeds at its leisure. Borne 
seasons it has proved injurious in Northern Illinois, 
but is not found in the South part of the Suite, nor, 
Mr. Walsh thinks, in the East 
Several pages are devoted to the Oyster-shell 
Bark-louse (Aspidiolus conchijbrmis , Gonelin,) about 
which there has been more nonsense written u. 1 
talked, Mr. Walsh asserts, than any other noxious 
insect in the laud. It would pay to review what he 
HOP POLKS. 
Yomt Wisconsin subscriber who asked what to 
plant for hop poles, was answered well—European 
Larch, Red Cedar and Chestnut. But if the pur¬ 
pose is simply hop poles, let him confine his plant¬ 
ing to the European Larch, which, planted in rows, 
say four to six feet apart and one to two feet apart 
in the row, will make him, iu ten years, poles 
twenty-five lo thirty feet h'glj, if his soil is as good 
as the average of our western prairie sorts. 
ihe Red Cedar will not make so rapid growth, 
nor so symmetrical. Aud talking of the cedar re¬ 
minds me that hedges of it in this latitude do not 
look healthy—especially 1 he older hedges. Talking 
of this fact with a friend who had uprooted a fine 
hedge of it, because of discoloration, and, as he sup¬ 
posed, disease, he said lie thought he hud discovered 
the cause of the trouble and the remedy. In cut 
ting down his hedge he found the limbs of the 
cedars were literally loaded with dead foliage, 
which, wet and decaying, burthoned the branches 
beyond conception, aud affected the health of the 
hedge. He w as satisfied that if palus Is taken annu¬ 
ally to relieve the branches of this burthen afier 
the foliage falls, the Rod Cedar will be unobjection¬ 
able as a hedge. 
About the Chestnut. It is quite worth planting 
of itself. Its fruit sold at $12 per bushel In Chicago 
last fall. It makes good shingles, posts, ties, tim- 
&—Why? won’t yon sell your wool with such a 
tare? 
fit—No—not if it is in as good condition as usual; 
otherwise will sell as I can find a buyer who will 
agree with me as to its value. 
A’.—But I want to buy your clip. 
B —Vcry well, you can have it,—but you need not 
come around with any of your fancy resolutions. 
You can have it for what it is worth. And I am to 
be the judge of its value if you get it. 
And that is just what every Western wool grower 
will tell the buyer. Fortunately for themselves, 
most wool growers in this corn country do their 
own thiuking, and can add, subtract mil divide; 
and they are not easily Tom-fooled, nor wheedled 
by wool buyers. Beside, their temper is oot the best 
just now,—for they have not made money enough 
out of the last clip to pay for good nature. 
V Unit YWes—for Bhade aud shelter. Deciduous 
trees should be set early in the season, before the 
buds swell, but May is the time to transplant ever¬ 
greens. Choose a moist, warm day, and do not let 
the sun or wind dry the roots. 
Tools should be placed in order for cultivating, 
for buying and harvesting. If you design to pur¬ 
chase new machines, do uot wait until the day be¬ 
fore they are wanted for use. Money invested iu a 
reaper two monthB before harvest sometimes pays 
big interest. 
Root Crape may yet be sown for stock, carrots for 
the horses, turnips for the sheep, and sugar beets 
for the cows. 
The Garden should be alluded to. Plant plenty 
of fruit and vegetables. 
