ing, who evidently wakes up as early on I<ong 
“TV <v Island as elsewhere, avowed that he had trav- 
UIl5» eled over the particular part of hong Island, 
(do whose ax was being ground on the Club’s grind- 
_____ _ — - stone, and that he should think himself cursed 
if he owned a thousand acres of it. His deroga- 
NEW YORK FARMERS CLUB. tory remarks brought the ponderous gentleman 
- up standing. There was ft genteel war Of words 
We continue our notes on tko sayings and with anti-dyspoptio laughtor from the members 
doings of this distinguished body of scientific c f the Club. The scene was better than a Black 
agriculturists. Crook burlesque and as good as a comedy. 
Lime for Roofs.— A correspondent asks how Bug Remedy.— _An Iowan keeps bugs from 
lime is to be applied to roofs to preserve them. vincs tus follows: — “ Take fresh cow dung up in 
NEW YORK FARMERS’ CLUB. 
The answer is, make a good, strong whitewash a veaso i, thin it somewhat with water, then with 
and apply it hot. a handful of weeds, si raw, or hay, pass along by 
Shale as an Insect Destroyer.—A week or two jour vinos and sprinkle 1 hem with the above 
ago a Schoharie county gentleman announced mixture, hy dipping i be weeds, or whatever you 
that he had found pulverized shale to be nn in- have, in it ami letting It drop on the vines. l'ry 
sect exterminator. His statements were dis- it, ami you will find it an effectual remedy. If a 
credited bv the State Entomologist of New Jer- rain washes this off, repeat the dose after this is 
«ev. Now he sends a sample tor trial, and writes: over. Those hugs will assail pumpkin vines as 
\’ IU , r ac t U al experiment, I have found it to bo well as cucumber, and farmers usually have an 
a specific against the operations of all the spe- acre or so of the former; but. he can sprinkle 
eies of worms and hugs which infest the garden ; them nearly as fast as hocan walk, and the whole 
and, notwithstanding the fact that Dr. Trimble cost-nothing.” 
declares it to be against the teachings of science, chicken Cholera. — N. A. 0 turnR, Brunswick, 
I can assure you that it still continues to make f m ,ls a good, strong tea made of white oak 
the currant.-worms and squash-bugs ‘move.’ bark a preventive of chicken cholera. Thochiok- 
My neighbors have all tided, it, and in many in- ons arc f on d n f it. 
stances have arrested the ravages of worms after jj ees nn ,i Fruit.—S amuel H. Goldavin, Mftdi- 
half of the bush had been destroyed, I have 80 „, i n d., broached an old subject in the follow- 
found it oquftlty effective against all varieties of jog . Inniinw: _«mst winter all the linos in our 
worms destructive of fruit, trees, rose bushes, c c un ty, -with the exception of about half ft dozen 
See. The better time Tor applying It is while the 8WtinnSl t i ic-G. and of course there wej-e none to 
dew is on or after a rain. The principal eonstit- slH , lc the honey from the tlowcrs bust spring. We 
uouts you will find to be, carbonate of time, j mvo an orchard that 1ms borne but. very little 
Scientific anl> fistful. 
USES OF PAPER IN JAPAN. 
A traveler tells the San Francisco 
Herald wonderful tales of the uses to which 
the Japanese put paper, lie Bays in his 
travels he saw it made into materials so 
closely resembling Russian and Morocco 
leather and pig-skin, that it was very diffi¬ 
cult. to detect the difference. 
With the aid of peculiar varnish and skill- 
lierent is knocked off by a few gentle taps. 
The article is next heated, to dry the silicate, 
and the bronze becomes firmly attached. 
Probably, in the case of porcelain, biscuit or 
stoneware, some, chemical union ol the sili¬ 
cate will take place, but in other cases the 
water - glass will only tend to make the. 
I bronze powder adhere to the surtace. Alter 
Ike heating, the bronze may lie polished or 
burnished with agate tools. 
The Centrifugal Extractor for Wine and 
Ckkr Making .—The centrifugal machine has 
been applied with great success in France 
to the extraction of the juice of grapes and 
With the aid ot peculiar yarn sn an , * • for win0 and cUlur making. It is 
ful painting, paper made exec Hen trunks ^ f() Qut con8lderab ly more juice, 
tobacco bags, cigar cases, saddles, telescope rapid in its action. It 
jntomoiogiciTl. 
[Quk*tii)N 8 til 1m nniwored In thin Department, when ercompenieil 
by specimen., ehouM bo sunt dlroctly to C. \. Uu.kv, 21.10 Clark 
Ave., St. I.ouU, Mo.] 
PEA BUGS. 
Mr. Landretr may lie right in asserting 
that this pest does not destroy the germ, hut 
it devours so much of the substance of the 
seed that the plant is always feeble, never 
does well, and may perish Just after sprout¬ 
ing. I have noticed this season, contrary to 
preconceived ideas, that the earliest peas 
contain no bugs, while the later on the. same 
vines have them. The pod is penetrated 
near the front suture by the insect, which 
pushes its egg-layer clear into the pea before 
it is half grown. The larva;, hatched and 
in,if irrmvn have been found in most ol the 
hark a preventive of chicken cholera. The chick- papev> j n t.licir hands serves as an excellent uouiact °f the rest with 
ons arc fond of it. «,ih»thiitn ll is soft. thin, tough, ol a pale „ 
Beea and FruH.-SAMUEr. H.aonowxN.Madi- ‘ . , ’ , ' vcnr plcntfiui mid very the skins and stalks rendering it lit only toi 
son, Ind., broached nn old subject in the follow- ^ ,llo " lhl V 1 . ’ . fioancso wines of ititenor quality. Jn the case ot 
log manner:—“Last winter all the bees in our cheap. 1 ho tmici walla U mant . > * 1 • c } dev the use of the machine seems equally 
county. With the exception of about half a dozen apartment arc formed of paper, being nothing , a , rcoU8 much less juice being left in 
swarms, died, and of course there were none>to than painted screens; their windows ‘ extraction beirnr effected 
suck the honey from the fiower, last spring. We V 1 u , „ fme tran slucent descrip- lUe m!irc ’ and U ° cxl ™f uou Dom « e ’ U ; ClUl 
have an orchard that has borne but very Little ‘U° covered w till a line, ir.insmeeiu w lth great, rapidity. The amount of force 
fruit for six or eight years, hut this season it is lion ol the same muteimi. it. ■ ■ L •> r e<«ulred to give a machine of the necessary 
full of healthy fruit. Now, the question is, into the manufacture of nearly everything m thousand turns a minute docs not ex- 
wliethor tho fruit is injured by the bees inking J upimese household ; and he saw wlial. three-horse, engine. 
nmgs 
gutninous plants.” 
Dr. Trtmbi.k urged that if it will kill insects, 
which lie still doubts, any common dust will do 
it as well. Let it be tried and proved. 
Arc Rhubarb Lcnve* Poisonous!—!?. S. GltEO- 
okt, Berea, 0., writes:-“Atone timethe opin¬ 
ion ivas hold by some that pic-plant, as hoav 
used by many, is an unsafe article, of diet. Two 
quality, the long contact of the rest with How camphor, or anything ol the sort, 
the skins and stalks rendering it lit only for can prevent the development ol the bug 
wines of inferior quality. Jn the case of is not easy to understand, as the larva com- 
sulphate of lime, sulphate of aluminum, pbos- frUtt fm . six or years, but this season ii is lion of the same material. It. enlc s h t, J re( . u j re( 
ptiate of lime, magnesia, sulphur and bllex. wo fup (jr Leulthy fruit. Noav, the question is, into the manufacture Of nearly everything m . ,j 
lmvo used it as a fertilizer with better results wll(;tboi . the f r uit is injured li.v tho bees Inking Japanese household ; and he saw what, ‘ ‘ 
than Nova Scotia plaster, particularly upon le- cvery par u 0 loof honey from tho flowers many , , , )() 1)a | ls of twine, hut, which were 0 , l 1111 
guminous plants.". times a day or not; or, In other words, la uot the . . An u 
limes a nay or noi, or, ui uuc • r .»- nnnHr 
honey that Is secreted in every fruit, blossom, nothing but long shieds ot toil 0 h papa 
put there for the health and nourishment of the rolled til). 
young fruit?" No comments Averc made by any 
of the learned gentlemen present. 
Experience with Fowls.— 0. Noyes, Lebanon, 
Conn., sends tho Club a statement ol' t he receipts 
from thirty hens each year lor five years, aside 
If a shopkeepers had a parcel to tie, up, he 
would take a strip of paper, roll it quickly 
between his hands, and use it for the purpose; 
that, a company lias been organized in New 
York City to lay still another Atlantic cable. 
The. new line will be worked with what are 
known as “ sounder instruments,” in other 
words, with those indicating the. letters of 
am sorry to say that the destruction of this 
pest seems further off than ever. 
Tho ( ii re ii I io, or Plum Weevil. 
Bug Hunter Riley inquires, in the Prairie 
Farmer, if this pest is not scarcer than usual 
ibis year. Plenty of them, with us, Mr. R.; 
more than ever, it possible. Our plum trees 
set unusually full of fruit this spring, and we 
1 » »*••'** uuvwv ,---n *Z , 
and it was quite as strong as the oiciuuuy ,u e alphabet by sound, instead of the galvan- determined, if possible, to save, some ot it 
. ... r ...Ol.....I (iniinr j _ __ . .. i , , .. . :.i 
sons ate of such leaves boiled for greens. All 
Avero made flick, and one of them died. If the 
leaves of a plant arc poisonous, is thero room 
for doubt that the stalk on wliicb such leaves 
groAv is also poisonous? Can experiments be 
tried to sett le this qiiesLlon conclusively ?” 
Mr. Bucks' said It Is well knoAvn that, there is 
Prussic acid in the pie-plant, and that it is poi¬ 
sonous. Mr. Lawton said that peach leaves also 
contain it, as does the fruit. Peach leaves, 
crushed, furnish a most, excellent. Uavoring ex¬ 
tract If used property, although it contains 
poison, no ill effects result. Mr. Fuller said 
that if this acid be taken from peaches they are 
spoiled. It lias been supposed that oxalic acid is 
contained in rhubarb; but Professor Johnson 
pays there is not enough in tl to injure anybody. 
eggs, and tho young fowls do less mischief t han 
old ones. Tho foivls run at ling' 1 except about 
two months in the summer, and then they aro 
let. out about Iavo hours a day toward uiglit. 
Amount received from thirty liens, from April 
t, 1804, to April I, 18(15, 26D dozen eggs, $76.10; 
250 lbs. poult ry, $53.08 •$120.15; average per hen, 
$1.20. April I. 1805, to April J, 1800,252 dozen 
eggs, $70.50; SO.Si Il'S. poultry, $11.11 $1)0.01. 
average per hen, $0.13. April I, 1800, to April I, 
1807, (thirty-five liens,) :«K$ dozen eggs, $1)7.0.'!; 
i;t+X lbs. poultry, $31.05 $128.08; average per 
hen, $3.00.” 
To Mewl Rubber Howt. — Wm. Hunt, Noav 
York Ciiy, writes tho Club:- “Tho inclosed 
method nf mending rubber hose ought to be 
Jcnown to everybody. 1 mended mine in several 
his wife’s paper, llic sage Japanese mothers- 
in law invariably stipulate in the, marriage 
settlement that the bride is to have allowed 
to her a certain quantity of paper. 
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USEFUL AND SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 
AW" Material for Paper .—There is a. kind 
of grass called the “Spartina fiber” or “marsh 
or cord grass,” which grows in large quanti¬ 
ties in some, of the Western States, Which is 
said to be an excellent material for the mantl- 
sand miles of insulated wire, ll is thought and bottles of sweetened water, and lighted 
that the plan of operations of the new COm- lamps, and tying locks -of wool round the 
pany will he made public tlie coming autumn. 
Plumbago an a, Lubricator for all Mar/uneri/. 
—Black-lead, which has only been used as a 
lubricator for wooden machinery, is now 
applied by 31. Delons to every kind of 
machine, from the heaviest vehicles to tho 
most, delicate watch-work, so dispensing with 
the use of oils and grease of all kinds. We 
trunks, and the dear knows wlmt other lolly. 
.Air. Mathews, President of the Iowa, Horti¬ 
cultural Society, an old curculio lighter and 
an honest man, is possessed with the idea, 
that, he has a sure thing oil the plum pest. 
All a mistake, Mr. M.; lu; can’t ho headed, 
when he does not want to be. Last year I 
fought just as hard, without avail, while a 
are not. yet informed of the manner in which neighbor, who did nothing at, all, had six 
People ami animals may stuff themselves with two or three years ago, ami it is yet 
any plant and products indigestion and death; strong and good. The plumbers said thero was 
but it does not follow that, il is a poison which no other way but. to use couplings costing a dol- 
kilK Plants got tho reputation for being poi¬ 
sonous which are known by ehemiflta to contain 
no poison. Blackberries and peaches will injure 
some systems; they do mine; but no one will 
pretend that It is the poison which they contain. 
He docs not believe the leaf of the rhubarb con¬ 
tains any more poison than tho stems of which 
they are a part. 
Dr. Thimble said it JsavcII knoAvn to physicians 
that there arc certain parts of plants—tho roots, 
for instance—which are poisonous, Avhtlo other 
portions contain no poison. Ho had no doubt 
that the leaves of tho rhubarb may be poisonous 
no other >vay but t.o use couplings costing a dol- | 
lar each. I used iron pipe cut to order three 
inches long, costing three cents each. Cut the 
hose apart where it Is defective; obtain from 
any gas-fitter a piece of iron ptpo two or three 
inches long; rtvist the hose over it t ill tho ends 
meet wrap with strong twine, well Avuxed, and 
it will last a long time.” 
Gapes Cure.— lticHARD Clift, Bethany, N. Y\, 
has seen gapes cured ns follows:—Place tho 
chicken In a basket, or box, covered sons t.o con¬ 
iine the smoke, and bUov tobacco smoke into 
the basket until they me pretty well stu pilled. 
It can easily be done by lighting a pipe of to- 
ruff of Quincy, III., says the. grass is known 
among botanists as Spettitiiia cgnosuridan. 
It grows wild upon the inundated bottom 
lands of the Mississippi River, the most 
northern limit of its growth extending near¬ 
ly to Burlington, Iowa, and its southern limit 
being about, the confluence of the Illinois 
with the Mississippi River. 
In portions of Illinois and Missouri there 
an: vast tracts of land on which can he cut 
from two to four tons of this grass per acre. 
and seems to give satisfaction. Miner, so muck be-puffed recently in the 
Ink for Writing on Ola *#.—A solution of Northwest. This last is all stuff. All the 
fluoride of ammonia is recommended as hard, wild sorts are as suscept ible as the best 
furnishing a ready means Of writing with a ones. Even the Sloe, which would make a 
pen of any kind upon glass, and is especially p jg squeal to taste it when at its best, is 
adapted for labeling bottles, cylinder-tubes, bored through and through by it. 
.. ■> « • _ ^ tii • ___ 
to men and animals and the stems safely edible, baeco, placing the stem of tho ptpo under tho crows f,. om three to seven feet in height 
• >.< . ('< ,tw,l tivnu n f tllA loiHT'U . .f tin, d tl rl lilriU'itnr t lllTillfl It ® . « • 
Dr Smith believe* the functions of the leaves covering of the basket, and blowing through 
and stems of plants an- very different; but tho bowl. Tho chickens will recover on being 
doubts whether if the leaves ol tho rhubarb had 
beeu cooked they would have injured the swine. 
j t w h rrNKA* did u*>t doubt that tho leaves of 
rhubarb are poisonous. Facts go to prove it. 
They contain oxalic acid, and if used at all 
should be used with caution. Doubts if it is safe 
to use the leaves, cooked or otherwise, as food 
for man or brute. Mr. Quinn said the growth of 
the rhubarb trade proves that- the steins pro¬ 
duce no deleterious effects. Ho has been culti¬ 
vating it fourteen years mid never kneAV any¬ 
one to be injured by eating the atoms. Never 
kneAV of any person eating the leaves, but lias 
known cows to die from eating them. Mr. 1- rr^ 
LEU said it Is well known that tho laurel kills 
sheep; but any one who knows anything about 
it, knoAvs it contains no poison. 
Thinning Fruil.—Mr. Quinn, Avith a branch of 
a pear tree laden Aviili pears, urged and illus¬ 
trated the importance and advantage ol thin¬ 
ning fruit. Ho had found that by thinning a 
heavily burdened tree from thirty-three to fitly 
percent, he got. a greater bulk of fruit, of far 
better quality and of greater market value. 
First quality pears bring in market from sixteen 
to twenty-five dollars per barrel; second quality 
iTom eight to twelve dollars; and thud quality 
Uom five to eight dollars. The way to obtain 
lirsc duality is to thin thoroughly; the way to 
insure & second and third quality crop is not to 
thin at au A Duchess pear weighing fourteen 
ounces is oj. iV better quality than one weigh¬ 
ing ten or twelve ounces. Hu urged that this 
subject should i~ceive moi«- attention, lhe 
Commander of the Club said the difficulty Is 
that people cannot bi mg themselves to destroy 
so much fruit as they seem to be doing when 
they thin it. It took him ten years to screw ms 
courage up to do the thing hhhself, though he 
the bowl. The chickens will recover on being Mr. Woodi'ull says ho has used mail) him | |( , t:u t umC( i for some time in one direction pave carefully shaken the same tree every 
brought to the air. They may possibly need a tired tons ot the grass m mukm.ff wrapping a hard stone) the motion should he half hour in the day, all through May and 
second smoking, though one dose seldom fails paper. It is much superior to straw, and d f ^ [ ht it , io(1 , faile d to make a big haul ol 
to kill the worm that causes the gape*. foreign artisans who have examined u pnu *, a hard stone will render it i C c’rliters. For one killed, two came to the 
Japan Lily Bulbs, from Japan m lorty days, nounce it better than the Esparto grass of r n t„ m h-eo<* if von choose 
eonriirncd to the enterprising seedsmen B. K. ., ... pwri.-need naner quite effectual. funeral. Plant out plum Ueos if you choose, 
Bliss & Son, received l»y tho first freight train B P ain r aml 1 01UI ° ai tLt =_ _ good Rural readers, hut never hope for a 
over the Pacific Hallway, were exhibited by Mr. manufacturers expiess tiio opinion the __ _ crop except when the curculio chooses to 
Fuller as evidence and in illustration of the paper can be made from it fully equal m /pi. a -jilmanvfn oermit von once in half & dozen, or a dozen 
enterprise of American seedsmen. quality, and difficult to tell from that made vc is nerhaps. Northwest. 
Gladioli, — Mr. Fuller stated that ho had a ^om rags. It costs five dollars per ton. A ® ____ * ’’ IH( .„ 
. . GRArH GI^W.-V; in CALIFORNIA. T^areplentyofour^wk.wm 
It nt ly Queen „ er0 on mMl.ltlon. iliUon UW l)Mn mnclu to Ibo nllm^ot nr - tent from U.in kind of talk aboutthc cot- 
This variety is pronounced by gentlemen Avho tides from which.paper can be matuiia i: ' . Rural of June 20th your Sonoma Co. cU ]; () And those who Avill dissent are those 
are growing It “promising," which is a very This increased use of paper for many pur- corregpon( i eil t says, “ grape growing is over- , l(> hayc practically proven that fruit cau 
Indefinite way of advertising a new thing, and poscs silt'll as collars and similar articles, California.” It is well known by , ,. ( . vn despite the curCUlio. 
sre^T“r way T'Jv rr * mi,a “ ^ — 
declared to bo earlier than the Early Rose at tho wide pecuniary int erest. m cg> tUtil the grape crop is almost a certainty HORSE-HAIR SNAKES. 
Fruit Growers’Club the other day. 7b obtain Oxygen without applying Heat .— bere • that teu tons is no uncommon yield -- 
Changing Seed.—Tho importance and ad van- yy e i, aV c already published One or two pro- fm . an a( . n , ftlu j t | ia ,_ twenty-live dollars a The American Entomologist thus disposes 
tagee Of Changing the scod of potatoes has been forgetting oxygen without the employ- ton is a common price for good grapes. The of tho reputed horse-hair snake: —“The 
Sia Tli<y arc aeccHwirily cxpisiia- onllfvattog, Ac., need M mlar notion that .hose are ani- 
6c i;. ive, and not applicable to indusirial purposes. ll0l exceed ten dollars an acre; then deduct mated horse-hairs is nothing but a supersti- 
Eiiriy Mohawk Potuto. — At several recent Uut small quantities of pn re oxygen arc some- j n terest on investment or taluc—say place lion. Like every other living creatuie, 
meetings of tho Fruit Growers’ and Farmers’ tjniesrequircdwlmncostisof no Importance, v , t , m . at } -, Y0 hundred dollars un acre, inter- including ourselves, they spring from an egg 
Club, rainpics ol' this variotyimvc becnexiiiiut- d simplicity of manipulation everything. ‘ t )wolvo pcr ccn t. would be sixty dol- in the first instance. They are not Hue 
Bocttger, who devised the process, takes ^ s f ^ateVdollars for cultivation, &c„ insects, hut belong to the Class of Worms; 
Poach Blow potato is rarely or never good equal weights of peroxyd oi barium and amoim ting to seventy dollars, to deduct, from and Justus man has intestinal woitnsih.it 
I boiled, but is always good stewed. peroxyd of lead, and having mixed them two hundred and fifty dollars, the value of live and thrive in his body, so many, insects 
I Pruning-Hook.— Mr. Doty, a practical fruit together adds some very weak nitric acid. prot hict of an acre, leaving as not profit one ar o infested internally by these so-called 
culturist, exhibited a pruning-iiook which, wo Active effervescence at once commences, and hundred and eighty dollars per acre. horse-hair snakes. Wo have ourselves seen 
tell TS il fa fcMd tft *» fa l»“ Your correspondent further snys, “ every livinB specimens six tote bmg, U»« <w» 
by which the orchardist may stand on the geu. It will be seen that, according to one groW g grapes." There are m this coun- out of the gigantic caterpillar, and have otten 
ground and, Avithout a ladder, shorten in trees Sehocnbcin’s theory, one of the peroxyds .{00,000 acres of land inclosed, 200,000 seen smaller ones come out ol grasshoppers. 
Whose growth is twelve or fifteen feet; or grape cmp i oyet i evolves ozone, and the other onto- wh lch arc cultivated by about 1,600 - +++- -, 
. •__ ...... a 4„ n 1l!" • iMiant Aiif 11,,-> ilii.t, I Vil<i/»lr tWAurv/ 1 ... 1 t*vlViJ " * w _ .. , n . . ... it...... M'nha n tin mi n f IP 
etc., in the laboratory, as well as for marking 
the degrees upon hydrometers and apparatus 
of similar construction. 
Grindstones. — A correspondent of the 
Scientific American Bays “ The grindstone 
is a self-sharpening tool, and after having 
been turned for some time in one direction 
(if a hard stone) the motion should be 
reversed. Band of the right grit applied 
| occasionally to a hard stone will render it 
quite effectual.” 
|l)t |mcjtiTrtb 
GRAPE GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. 
In Rural of June 20tli your Sonoma Co. 
Dr. Hall of Alton, Ill,, is very positive 
that the Columbia, an excellent plum, by the 
way, is so juicy as to drown the egg and 
larva. Perha ps it occasionally does so. Let 
no man delude himself with the idea that 
this will always be the case. This year I 
have carefully shaken the same tree every 
half hour in the day, all through May and 
June, and never failed to make a big haul ot 
the cri Iters. For one killed, two came to the 
funeral. Plant out plum trees if you choose, 
good Rural readers, but never hope for a 
crop except when tho curculio chooses to 
permit you, once in half a dozen, or a dozen 
years, perhaps. Northwest. 
loAva, IBt’.D. 
There are plenty of our readers who will 
dissent from this kind of talk about the cur- 
culio. And those who will dissent are those 
The increased use ot papet ior many pu - ( . om . S p 0m h. n t says, “ grape growing is over- wllo ] iavc practically proven that fruit can 
poses, such as collars and similar articles, ^ California,” It is well known by , )C „ rown despite the curculio. 
makes the supply of paper stock a matter ot own( . rtt g0o( { vineyards, In favorable local- -- 
wide pecuniary interest. iUeS) tUat u ie grape crop is almost a certainty HORSE-HAIR SNAKES. 
To obtain Oxygen without applying Heat.— lierc tJml lcu tons n0 uncommon yield - 
We have already published one or t wo pro- fm . an acr(J> ftnt i that twenty-five dollars a Tub American Entomologist thus disposes 
ecssea for getting oxygen without Uie employ- tou \ s a common price for good grapes. The of the reputed iioree-hair snake: —“The 
ment of heat. They are necessarily expens- expeng0 0 f pruning, cultivating, &c., need popular notion that these animals are ant- 
ivc, and not applicable to industrial purposes. UQt exccc q ten dollars an acre; then deduct mated horse-hairs is nothing but a supersti- 
culturist., exhibiteU a piuning-hook which, avo 
think, must prove of great service to the or- 
chardist and vincyardist. It is a contrivance 
by which, the orchardist may stand on tho 
ground and, Avithout a ladder, shorten in trees 
f peroxyd of barium and iim() ’ un ti ni r to seventy dolla rs, to deduct from and just, as man has int estinal worms that 
, and having mixed them two hundred and fifty dollars, the value of live and thrive in his body, so many, insects 
>me very weak nitric acid. (luct ot - an acre( leaving as net profit one arc infested internally by these so-called 
knew it ought to be done a “ 'S'. ‘ " whose growth is twelve or fifteen feet ; or grape cniployet t evolves ozone, and the Other onto- 
ler said tho same feeling pieAUAted in. i vines on a trellis; pr cut out the dead blackberry ' . * ,i r -mrl the nm. 
ing fruit trees properly. It Avas mnci 1 e a w jtiiout touching them with the hand; zone,or oxygen in l ; * 
ing fruit trees properly. It avos much like 
amputating the arm of a child for men to cut | 
off the limbs of trees they have nursed, and 
Avhose groAVt h they have watched. Mr. Buuf.n 
said if people only knew it they could make 
tlieir trees uniformly productive, healthier, and 
longer li\-ed, by preventing them from bearing 
too great a burthen Of fruit. 
Long lilami Soil.— John HARROW), Secretary 
Queens Co. Ag. Soc., bad sent the Club a box of 
1 soil from tho Hempstead Plains which A. T. 
Stewart has just purchased. It was good black 
muclt, or vegetable mold, Avliich Mr. Fuller 
believed to be good because ho had knoAvn a 
! good deal of it to be sold in the Noav York mar¬ 
ket as guano 1 A ponderous and gentlemanly 
Long Islander called the attention of the Club to 
{ this soil as a fair average sample of the soil of 
* ton thousand acres. The Professor of Early Kis- 
.,.. ' rn To Catch Potato B«g«.-Tako a tin pan or 
persons, only ten of whom grow grapes on 8Uilab |o vessel, and pour a small quantity 
a large scale. About one hundred others ^ coa j () j| ( or petroleum fluid in it, hold it near 
grow them in small vineyards, or in the t t, opo tato tops, and with a broad stick brush 
® .... i .1. .1 ... .1 . il...-- "LalriMn If ilf. Hfllfh Ol* 
canea wiutourc wwsmiw uwm. wim uiu nmm, -.’ , , * .. n ^ , , 4t other BuiUlblo VO 
also, gooseberries, &e. It consists of a hook for live states, and these combine its they aie i ar gc scale. About one hundred others of cou i 0 ll, or Pol 
confining 'fie branch or a ine, and a chisel given off to ffirm natural or ordinary oxygen. w lliem \ n gmall vineyards, or in the tliy potato tops, 
operated through a metal tube which cuts tho q-j ; proces3 j s 0 f more scientific than prac- fr r lcn compr iBimr about one hundred and the bugs In the 
tical Lore,!; but it may b 0 n S ,M porbap, '.000,000 vines, in j—j;>- 
the ground without climbing, etc. AvUcii small quantlliks ot oxygen are required. tllis (g anla Clara) county — or a little more k ‘ |( . u with ’ g(J m 
X Red Hu»t ou KlUfttinny itiuckhorry.-At for medicinal purposes .—Sdontiflc American. ti iau o,uj fn sixteen rawing grapes. picking. 1 kllk 
the Fruit Growers’ Club the other day, Mr. T o Bronze Porcelain, Stoneware, Etc.—A He further says “wine making is as lu- the blister bugs 
Doty said that, a red rust'hud appeared on his ^ industrious technologist gives a simple cra tive as cider making in Ncav York.” Not lor, Bedford, <>. 
Sr^lSSoldS;; bronzing process, applicable to porcelain, knowing how well cider making pays there, ^ Iloper v 
along side llie K. Avero not affected. No one else stoneware, and composition pictures and I ant unable to answer that par to tic < u. w ,.j t( , s ihoCovml 
present had ever seen rust on this fruit; and ]ookiug-gluss frames. The articles fire first San Joan, Cal., 18M- D. M. HAiywoon. , h)lVO fought, i 
this is the first iustauee avc have heard of any. ()VW wi(h a tiliu golution of AVatei'-glass We should be glad to hear more trout Mr. beaten him by t 
-Since writing the foregoing we learn that hv the aid of a soft brush. Bronze powder Harwood concerning grape growing m «oup, rubbed art 
this rust—yellow, not red—baa appeared m lo- . J , . . , , „„„ , n„uf«rriia lasureiutng. 
, culities on Other Varieties of the blackberry. is then dusted on, and any excess not ad- California. 
- „ The Borer.— W. H. Herkick, Oswego, N. Y., 
1 am unable to answer that partot the letter. writ( . s (heC'ouutry Gontlenum “ if'"'' ten years 
San Jose, Cal., 18(H). D. M. Harwood. , haV0 f 0UK ht, tlto borer, but have now fairly 
We should be glad to hear more from Mr. beaten him by the application of solid whale ml 
Harwood concerning grape growing in Loup, rubbed around the base of tho trees, it is 
California. a sure thing.” 
a sure thing.” 
