cotton crop, either from the worm, from 
drouth, or any other unavoidable cause. 
Improbable as such visitations may appear, 
we have not the power to prevent them, and 
is it wise to subject ourselves to the possibil¬ 
ity of becoming the victims of such calam¬ 
ities ? Depend upon it, our wisest and safest 
policy is, as far as practicable, to produce at 
home our necessary supplies. Is there a 
farm in the South upon which this cannot be 
done, and at the same time produce an aver¬ 
age cotton crop as the net result of the far¬ 
mer’s annual labors? We believe there is 
not, and you have only to practice this policy 
for the year 1X74, and harvest time will pro¬ 
claim redemption to the South and a return 
to wonted prosperity. 
As our Constitution expresses it, the pros¬ 
perity of a nation is in proportion to the value 
of its productions. Then how magnificently 
prosperous should be the cotton States of this 
Union ! Annually 4,0(10,000 Of bales of cotton 
are produced upon Southern soils. But what 
proportion of lliis vast amount is returned to 
indicate our prosperity ? One-half of it is 
expended for necessary supplies, while the 
remainder is divided between labor and taxes. 
Hence the cost of production has exceeded 
the value of the article produced. Shall this 
policy continue ( 
Extensive cotton crops have, evmccd our 
unity of purpose aud entailed poverty upon 
us. An equally uniform adhesion to mixed 
husbandry would secure our recuperation. 
Pat rons of the South, do you appreciate your 
privileges? Reflect upon your opportunity 
to exact tribute of the world. Cotton is a 
necessity, amt the extent, of that necessity 
can be calculated with exactness. It is 
equally well known what proportion of that 
necessity must be supplied by t he Cotton 
.States of America. Jf 3,500,000 bales are 
grown, they will be consumed before another 
crop can be gathered, and a remunerative 
market price will be sustained by the conse¬ 
quent demand. If 4,500,000 bales are grown, 
the large marginal excess will control and 
depress the market, it is not within the 
power of our oganization to control this 
feature of our condition. Alternatives for 
success are numerous, but we need rely only 
and in fact the seeds of all of our hardy t rees 
may be treated in the same manner. 
Next spring many of our readers will be 
asking us how to sprout honey and yellow 
locust seed, ns such questions are usually 
sent us by the scores about planting time. If 
you have not obtained the seeds you desire, 
do so immediately and then mix with moist 
sand aud set them iu some OUt-buildiug or 
bury in the open ground until the time ar¬ 
rives for planting This will be all the prep¬ 
aration required to moke them sprout. 
Many kinds of seeds, if kept dry through 
winter, will not grow, and others require 
special unnatural processes to start them, 
consequently it is best to begin in time and 
have everything ready for a good commence¬ 
ment iu spring. Seeds of hardy fruit trees, 
such as apple, pear, plum, cherry, peach and 
quince, also the seeds of small fruits, may he 
treated in the same manner ; and if there is 
anything to be done in the way of raising 
seedlings of any such things next spring, not 
a moment should be lost in making the 
necessary preparations. 
Those remarks are not, of course, intended 
for the experienced misery man, but. for those 
who are about to make their first experiment 
in this line. Did we not know from experi¬ 
ence that hundreds will wait until the time 
arrives for planting before they think of pro¬ 
curing such seeds, we would not feel called 
upon even to mention the subject, even thus 
briefly. 
EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS 
This is called the “ Australian Fever Tree,” 
because we are told that miasma ceases 
wherever it grows. This statement has at¬ 
tracted the attention of scientists and has 
found wide currency in this country creating 
much inquiring concerning it and a demand 
for it. Its virtues are said to be due to the 
fact that its foliage has a peculiar, camphor- 
like odor and its roots absorb a large amount 
of water—so large an amount that where It 
is thickly planted in marshy districts the 
subsoil is said to be completely drained. It 
is stated that it has been planted at Cape 
Colony, in Algiers, in the neighborhood of 
Constantinople and in Cuba, in Southern 
Franco, &c., in malarious districts with a de¬ 
cidedly favorable hygienic result. 
Of course such a detail of facts attracts the 
attention of those who burn, shiver and 
shake with fever aud ague in this country and 
a demand for the tree is at once created. 
Unfortunately, however, for the afflicted, 
being a native of Australia it is not hardy 
wherever malaria occurs and hence it. cannot 
be planted wherever there are miu matic 
lands t o drain and where people suffer from 
miasma. !’. J. Berckmans of Augusta, Oa , 
lias found that it is not hardy as far south 
as his locality ; accordingly the Northern 
half of the Union must remain content to use 
it as a medicinal preparation, it being assert¬ 
ed that it thus cures the worst eases of inter¬ 
mittent fever against which even quinine 
had proven powerless. It is also said to be 
valuable as a disinfectant, as dressing for 
wounds and for catarrhal troubles. 
In its native habitat it attains a large size 
and flight, sometimes reaching 220 feet in 
hight with a circumference of over GO feet at 
the base. The wood exhales an aromatic 
odor and after seasoning is said to be incor¬ 
ruptible. Its wood is valuable for timber 
and is largely exported. Its foliage is thin 
and oddly twisted, surmounting with a thin 
crown, the top of a pillar like stem. We 
AN ADDRESS TO THE SOUTH. 
MIXED HUSBANDRY RECOMMENDED 
The Rural New-Yorker has often ad¬ 
vised planters iu the Cottou States not to 
depend solely upon their staple, but to adopt 
a system of mixed husbandry. We are there¬ 
fore glad to chronicle the fact that the Mas 
ters of the State Oranges of the Cotton 
Growing States submitted the following able 
address on the subject, at the recent annual 
meetiug of the National Grange at St. Louis, 
which was approved aud recommended to be 
published: 
The undersigned representatives of the 
Cotton States in the National Grange beg 
leave to present, to the Patrons of Husbandry 
in tlie cotton-growing section of the Union 
the followingsugge lions, which they believe 
to be justified by the present condition of 
the South: 
During the past seven years our cotton 
fields have added to the wealth of the world 
$2,000,000,OflO, and caused prosperity to smile 
upon every one who has handled our crop 
save those who struggled for its production. 
Annually the energies of the cotton planter 
have been exhausted in attempting to pro¬ 
duce a maximum crop of a single staple, 
while quite as frequently ho has reduced his 
means in supplying his necessary wants. A 
system based upon such a policy and produc¬ 
ing sueh results must be radically wrong, 
aud if persisted in will lead to bankruptcy 
and ru n. We propose to inquire into the 
cause of this evil and, if possible, present a 
method of removing it. lias it been that the 
supply of cotton has exceeded the demand ? 
Statistics do not show this fact. Is it that 
our labor lias been unreliable and expensive ? 
The same labor investment has nowhere 
yielded a greater market value of products. 
Has Providence inflicted upon us agricultural 
disaster? He has often interposed for our 
benefit. What, then, has averted our antici¬ 
pated prosperity i Are not we responsible 
for our direful condition in that we have 
neglected too much the growth of bread- 
stuffs and substituted therefor almost ex¬ 
clusively the cultivation of cotton i 
No people can ever become prosperous who 
are not self-sustaining. Our fertile soil, ex¬ 
haustless mineral wealth, abundant water 
power, aud genial, salubrious climate avail 
us nothing if annually we expend millions 
for subsistence. It is generally conceded that 
home-grown bread is cheaper than purchased 
supnlies, aud the observation of every plaL ter 
is that those Southern farmers who live 
within themselves are more independent and 
less incumbered with debt than those who 
have relied solely upon the cotton crop. 
Were it otherwise. It is hazardous for any 
people to rely upon others for a supply of 
those articles which are necessary for their 
daily consumption. The horrors of famine 
which have more than once cursed the people 
of India in their efforts to grow cotton to the 
exclusion of breadstuffs would have been 
repeated in our midst but that we were able 
to supply our necessities from the teeming 
granaries of the Northwest. We shrink from 
the contemplation of what would be our 
condition should disaster deprive us of that 
resource. 
During the past year certain portions of 
Iowa, Minnesota and Dakota have been 
invaded by the grasshopper, which has swept 
their fields like a fire and destroyed every 
vestige of vegetation. 
Imagine your condition should a similar 
invasion become general in the Northwest. 
Couple with this idea the total failure of a 
THE CABBAGE-WORM PARASITE 
I herewith send you a few specimens of 
cocoons containing the larva 1 of so rue insect. 
I found them on my currant bushes a few 
days since, and strongly suspect them of 
being the lurvie ol’ the currant worm. Will 
you ii<- kind enough to tell me if L am correct 
in n.y uspicion 1 —W. B. Pratt. 
The chrysalid (not cocoons) which you sent 
containing the larvie of some insect, were 
those of the White Cabb tge butterfly {Fieri* 
rapae) so frequently referred to in our col 
mans. When received, tnc greater part of 
what you termed “larva 1 ,” but more prop 
erly pup®, had become transformed into 
minute little flics, \\ Inch We recognized u- 
that ever-welcome friend, the Pu romalus 
puparum. Everyone of the six chrysalids 
sent wore- full of these files or pupa 1 ., and we 
really regretted that they could not be let 
go among the cabbage worms of those local 
ities where they have not. as yet appeared. 
These little flies have benefited our farmers 
and gardeners ruidious of dollars during the* 
past three or four years, by destroying the 
imported cabbage pest named above. Do 
not destroy another chrysalis of this kind, 
for every one you sent us contained from 10 
to 20 of *these’little friends of the cabbage 
growers. 
We have frequently referred to the 1 ‘ieris 
rapae and the history of its introduction 1 QtO 
this country, but the story is an interesting 
one aud will bear repeating, at. least very 
briefly. This cabbage nest is supposed to 
have been brought from Europe into Canada 
East, some eight or ten years since, healthy 
chrysalids having probably been imported 
among seeds or in some other manner. Its 
little enemy nut being brought over at the 
same time, it spread very rapidly, overrun¬ 
ning the entire Eastern States in three or 
lour years, destroying the greater part of 
the cabbage crop m many localities. A few 
years later one or more chrysalids like those 
you have sent us, containing the pup® of the 
little parasite were also imported in some 
unknown manner, and the little flias escal¬ 
ing, immediately sought out their eld ac¬ 
quaintances (the cabbage worms), and finding 
such an abundance of food they in turn rap¬ 
idly increased in numbers until the rnuch- 
druaded cabbage pest has almost disappeared 
from the localities where they were a few 
years since the most abundant. 
The female fly is (supposed to deposit her 
eggs in the cabbage worms iu summer or 
auturnu; but this does not kill nor injure 
them to such an extent as to prevent them 
from undergoing their transformation and 
becoming chrysalids like those you have sent. 
But the eggs of the little fly hatch and be 
come grubs, these feeding upon the flesh, as 
we may term it, of the worm or chrysalids 
until it is fully mature, then it becomes a 
pupa ; another change, and it crimes forth a 
minute fly. 
Now, tne entire original substance of thr 
chrysalids sent had been eaten up by the 
larvie of this little parasitic fly, and instead 
of containing a single butterfly, they were 
filled with the pup® or fully developed flies. 
The warmth they received while, passing 
through the mail and in our office after ar¬ 
rival, caused them to hatch out prematurely 
Whenever you or any of the readers of the 
Rural New-Yorker find chrysalids or 1 
coons full of small eggs, grubs or pupa-, ii 
would be well to find out something ahou: 
them before destroying, inasmuch as thev 
may be valuable friends. Had the vessel 
which brought to this country* the first chrys¬ 
alis of Pier is rapue, filled with the pup® nl 
Pteromoius pupunMn, brought nothing else, 
we could have wellafforded to have paid the 
cost of the voyage to and from Europe, even 
had she been the Great Eastern. 
GLOBULUS. 
give herewith an illustration of its peculiar 
foliage and flowers. 
upon the single one of c;o-operatiug in the 
determination to subsist at home. With this 
end attained, there is no reason why we 
should not be the happiest, most independent 
and prosperous people on earth. 
D. Wyatt Aiken, S. C., Member Ex. Coin. 
Nat. Grange. 
W. H. CHAMBERS, Master Alabama State 
Grange. 
A. J. Vaughan, Master Mississippi State 
Grange. 
Bknj. F. Wardlaw, .Master Florida State 
Grange. 
•Ixo. T. Joses, Master Arkansas State Grange. 
H. W. L. Liav is, Master Louisiana State 
Grange. 
G. J. Smith, Master Georgia State Grange. 
W. Maxwell, Master Tenn. Stale Grange. 
Columbus Mills, Master North Carolina 
-State Grange. 
TAKE CARE OF THE SEEDS, 
Perhaps it is not necessary to remind 
those who have tree seeds of various kinds, 
which they intend to plant next spring, that 
it is not best to keep them iu a dry warm 
room or cellar through the winter. Nuts of 
all hardy kinds, such as hickory, black wal¬ 
nut and butternut, should be kept moist and 
cold even if they do not freeze ; but it is bet¬ 
ter to mix them with soil aud pvt out-of- 
doors where they will freeze if the weather 
is cold enough. Maple, Tulips, Buttonwood, 
