I 945 ;9 R2 »py 1 A.lerior to Dr. Hull's. Although th^ise ma- chines will catch great nunibers of the insects, there are many objections to them. First, the expense of using them ; second, the danger of marring the trees in order to use them efficiently in jarring thocurculio off; third, with any amount of force in striking the trunk of the tree, only a portion of the eurculio will be jarred off, as I have tested by using a mallet on the limbs immediately after itriking the tree with a bumping catcher. I caught almost twice as many. The only other mode is by thoroughly destroying the larvae by picking no^the fallen wormy fruit, or letting hogs run in the orchard and make pork or trichina of them before they get to be hard shells or get "iheir bank 7/^;." This method will be effective in destroying thousands a year before they can do us any damage. The eurculio are quite continuous in feeding. Beginning immediately after emerging from the ground, about the last of July, tho eurculio commence feeding and continue even as hito as October.— They will feed on peaches, blackberries, quinces, and probably any kind of fruit during tho latter part of the season. One. or all of these modes combined, will be the price paid in a short time for all the fruit ripened where the eurculio has gained in numbers as in this region, in Southern Illinois, and in many other places. I am told that at Cleveland it is nearly impossible to raise a cherry, free from this well-known Turkish croscent !-iark. Every fruit grower who aeglocts, in this fruit raising vicinity, to destroy this insect thoroughly, is doing a wrong to others, and should be branded with the crescent mark on his forehead which Cain had on his, and he should bo driven out to feed like one of old on the grass of the field like the ox, and his lips should never touch our luscious fruits. To my mind some or all of tliese moihods are necessary to success in sav- ing our fruits from this little hlaclc snouted cvss, (I do not speak profanely of him, but reverently), 1 mean accursed, as ihe flaming sword was to guard the fruit of Eden. It is said by persons who have lived in the St. Joseph fruit region from tlie time the fi.rst peach trees were plant- ed, that the apricot, necterine, j^lum and all stone fruits grown here then, wei'c fair and free from the puncture of the eurculio as the fruit of Paradise. Now, with all our efforts, it is thought by good judges (and I have asked the opinion of many competent fruitgrowers) that we lose from one half to two-thirds of our fruit crop when the season favors anything less than a full general crop. A gentleman remarked to me a few days ago, that last year ho noticed many orch- ards which set a fiiir crop, but the fruii kept disappearing like ;!ie summer dews, till there was nonft lef'. If wc were more thorough in eurculio destruction, it would save Chicago the expense of sending her proposed mission- aries among us, to convert us from send- ing them early, ''Hale's early," that are "jomev/hat peculiar." Lot us attend to this missionary labor among ourselves, and Chicago go forth with her exuberant feeling of love to the poor " heathen Chi- nee." Mr. Elliot tells us, whca he published his book on fruit in 18.51, that the eurcu- lio had not been known in the west but a few years ; while now its numbers are legion. It swarms on our fruit almost like the locusts of Egypt. For tho i)asi fifty years horticulturists have been look- ing for a preventive to their ravages. Po- mologists have inquired for varieties of fruit which eurculio would not touch, or sonic application to the tree to make it offensive to them, so as to compel them to leave the finit in disgust. Notwithstand- ing the eurculio have a preference for fruit of particular varieties and kinds, they are not remarks,bly fastidious. Their 3 snout was made to drill fruit and it must do it. It must work at some kind of fruit if not as agreeable to them as others. — They cannot be idle. Having read everything my eye ever lit upon about the curculio, for the last thirty yoai's, it is absolutely astonishing how much has bci^n written on the sub- ject and to how little purpose. Except the three methods I have spok- en of as means of destroying them, nothing better ever has been discovered. The many recipes, preventives and meth- ods to save our fruit arc innumerable. — An old preventive was to cut down the trees, with the remark ''I never get any fruit." This, instead of killing the de- stroyer, killed the tree. This was effect- ual. I do not believe anything but death will stop that horny snout from piercing into our young stone fruits. It is amus- ing to see what is written as succe^ises in saving a crop of fruit, the many r«cipes given are supremely ridiculous. For instance, »prinklino; Paris green under and on the trees ; sprinkling dust, lime, sulphur, salt, in the trees ; throwing with a syringe whale oil soap on the trees; liquid manure, etc., etc. ; bags of salt put in the forks of the trees ; tolaacco water •, sweet elder branches hung in the trees ; assafootida; phospliorus ; tar around the trees ; tarred shingles hung in the branch- es , cotton batting tied around the body of the trees to prevent their crawling up ; as though their wings were made for orna- ments and not for use. Some have re- commended plowing them in ; spading tneni in ; pillug large piles of stouo around the trees ; paving under the trees, etc. — A hundred of such remedies I might con- tinue to mention, of equal sense and of etiual value. While all these panaceas only delude the experimenter and keep him from efficient means of destruction, the curculio enjoys them as a pcrfumei-y olForcd only to his highest sense of en- joyment as a co-worker in the perfumery art, in its elevating and refining inliuenco upon his race. Nothing short of the ilam- ing sword of death, severing the joints and the marrow of them is of any utility, or efficiency. I admit that cultivating and passing around the trees frequently, putting chickfiu coops under the trees or moving around the ti-oes often disturbs them in a measure, and may to some extent save a portion of the fruit. Hens rooating m the trees is perhaps as good as anytliing but death on them, from the fact the cur- culio operate almost exclusively by night. Fowls oidy disturb, but do not destroy Ihem, by roosting on the trees. Some one has proposed to raiso trees on little islands so the fruit stung VTOuld ffiU in the water. This only would destroy the larvae, and the same could be done by picking up the fallen fruit ; though it ia claimed they will not attack the fruit thua exposed to the water because instinct governs them to preserve their larvae ; but this practice of planting trees would be "wholly impracticable to any extent. It is known that the peach, containing tho larvae, put into barrels of water will re- main weeks without destroying them, be- cause when afterwards emptied they be- come active and enter the ground. The custom was to pick up the fallen wormy fruit and empty it in the river. — But observation discovered the fact that the peaches lined the shore of the river and lake, where many of the larvae un- doubtedly enter tho ground, and come forth transformod to prey the next year on our fruit. I put some apples in a breed- ing jar last summer to let the larvae ma- ture, in order to breed them to the perfect beetle. The appleg decayed some where cut. and discharged some liquid in tha bottom of the jar with the sweat of the apples. Two larvae came out and I let them lie in the liquid a week or two till apparently dead, bleached white. One day I took them and put them on some earth, and after some time they b«carao somewhat dry and very soon went frcely into the ground. I put some into a jar Sept. 21st, and Sept. 29th the larvae had his wing process deyelopcd ; Oct. 16th wings and legs were formed, the beetle colored and quite hard, but not come out of the cavity where he transformed, I will here say that all the curculio I bred from apples were the common plum cur- culio. I do not know of having ever seen any of Dr. Hull's "anthonomus quadri- gibbus," or apple curculio. We have never carefully and thorough- ly enough studied the natural habits and rules of international law of this Turkish Mahamcdau emperor. We know we pay tribute as a Christian people to his ma- jesty. A tribute more excessive than is paid to any monarch on the globe. Yet ; ' destroy morp cnrcnlio than any other yet discovered. There arc many here to-day who have used all other means, that can bear testiinoiiy to its efficiency and suc- cess. Iilutomologists I hin'hly appreciate as men, and their general beueiit as eo-as- asistants to horticnlturists ; but to pro- claim the futility of this mode of destroy- ing the curculios in the face Okf facts in this vicinity, weakens the faith of plebian horticulturists in scientific entomologists. Thousands, and perhaps millions, of cur- culios wore destroyed by this simple Avay last year, and we hope billions will per- ish in the same way the coming year it there are as many in Berrien county. My friend, Dr, 'Hull, who came here after the first discovery and saw these in- sects taken from landor the traps in large numbers, went home and made a few ex- periments, and then wrote several Col- umns to show that the traps were of little value, contrasting the result of his curcu- ho catcher and his traps set. ITe drew the conclusion that the sheet or catcher must be used, and if used at all, the fruit grower might as well wait and catch them all at once. "J'his reminds me of the man who had his wife cook his supper, bre-ak- fast and dinner for the next day, at even- ing, and let him eat it at supper, so as not to be bothered the next day. I shall only further say of the exhaustive article of the Doctor, which considers tlie trap- ping process as labor lost ; that thousands can be killad before the catcher would bo used and this multitude be desti'oyed be- fore they can do any damage at all. Wo did not expect success iu Dr. Hull by working the orchard. They crawl [or my friend Riley, (though I think highly with great rapidity and when they reach of them), for this process of catching the tree during the day, until just at curculio with traps was new to them, and evening — very few will ascend the tree if they were not expected to be "experts." they can find a hiding place near it. JThls was practical entomology ; science This mode of capturing them the past! was their profession. Dr. Hull said when we pay — pay — pay year after 3'ear, with careless supineuess of theorizing reme- dies. He Jakes of our wealth asking no questions for conscience sake, (if con- science a ''Turk" has), with a Mahame- dan's rights, over a Christian j^eople ;^and the most wc say or do is, when we are feathered together iu full numbers as to- aav, and out of his presence ; — ''tlic Utile Turk r We now want tc marshal our forces, learn all his habits and rules of warfare, and to a man compel his surrender. — Proclaim our rights to our domain — say, "millions for defense but not one j^racA for tribute." It is known in this community that I made the xkw discovery last year of trap- ping tlism under small pieces of bark, blocks, bits of boards, lath, chips, stones, pieces of bricks, bunches of matted leaves, corn cobs, or anything with a flat- tish surface from two to four inches square placed around the collar of the trees on the ground after making it level and smooth to the distance of three or four feet from the tree ; or if smooth and clean for a larger distance, so much the bettei'. The object of making the groand clean and smooth is, that they may find no hid- ing place but the trajis or cover's pre- pared for them. The curculio is jfrincipally a noc- turnal insect in its habit of feeding and depositing it:; «.2'gs. They move comparatively but little during the day except to crawl on the ground, and when iu the orchard, under its rubbish, will crawl toward the trees during the day ; especially when disturbed ^ season was highly satisfactory to persons who properly ])repy.red the ground and traps, except to a, few savaus who have spent years in instructing us on their hab- its and the mode of destroyiiig thein. — The only crotchet iu their mind that I am here examining the discover^', that he or no one else ever heard of curculio being deslroyed ])y such means. But with duo deference to my friend Prof. Riley, who says that they could only be caught in my traps ''early iu the spring before the trees able to perceive, is that the most efEcIsnt were iu bloom, when the nights were cool way to destroy the curculio was discover- and the days AvariRs :" 1 would earnestly ed by a fruit groAver, and not by a pro- say, that we, here in Michigan respect- fessional ; and I am bold to assert, not- fully dissent from such hasty conclusion, withstanding the warning notes of these Such advice and theory is disproved here, savans, that this mode will, if followed, as much as his claiming that fruit grow- ers "wei'i"! under Laslinn- ol)lif:;alion" to me for the discovery, while still attributing it to Mrs. Wiersjwho accidentally found some curculio gathered under lumber placed iu the vicinity ot" some plum trees, (we are not told how near, nor of any preparation of the ground,) and in the course of two weeks caught the enormous number ot IGl, which a small toad could catch and swallow in fifteen minutes, and still sit and wink for his lunch. But we catch with little bits of bark, etc., two to four inches square, iu two or three hours. thousands. Now, how can Prof. Riley claim for Mrs. VViers the discovery of this process, while she only related the iiact of finding them under the boards without stating how near the trees, not even suggesting the putting of the boards, (we may sup- pose 12 feet long and a foot perhaps wide) near the tree or j)rcparing the ground. She simply' pui it in the vicinity. having occasion to use it. It is, and always has boon known, that Mr.s. WIers' suggestion was no practical discovery, or like our method of trappini; them ; and what she found in regard to catching never suggested anything but a lumber pile, and that new boards. This was before the trees were iu bloom. No- body heard auy more of it until our dis- covery, then i'rof. Riley brought it up. — In liis exhaustive report to the Missouri and Illinois Horticultural Societies, as to the ultima thula of curculio destruction, he not only discarded it, but rJl methods except jarring, hogs, and picking up the fallen wormy fruit. Here we join issue. Michigan may use all of these, but not solely ; we will use the traps whatever else we use. Last year I used nothine: but traps, and proved to my satisfaction their superiority over the jarring process. But there is no objection to using tnij^s, catchers. sJiects, any and all means that will destroy a single curculio. Let all these be used! Do not discard any means that kills a sin- gle curculio ! This method of trapping was published from east to west, from north to south over the Union — in two weeks time, and tried as an experiment in all parts. — Where the preparation was proper and not too late iu the season, persons de- stroyed the beetles in large numbers. In this vicinity it was very satisfactory, I h^Lve rocoived the highest testimony of its success, while Mrs. Wiers' discovery was still-born, and buried without a christen- ing ceremony or name. It was only resur- rected to take from'aspiring entomologists the cloud of surprise that all horticultu- rists expressed, that thej had not before discovered so simple a remedy. Pro). Riley's experiment was no better than Dr. Hull's with traps; from his experience and practice he warns all his Michigan friends against any confidence iu them. This is gratuitous advice. It would be good if true ! '\Vc have, however, learned by practice, to put faith in curculio traps. Sincerity or pride might have prompted this advice to destroy our confidence in this successful mode of capture. Last year curcuHos wei'e killed by thousands and hundreds of thousands, yet the major- ity who used the traps began late in thc» season. My curculio crop amounted to over 40,000 bj actual count, and mostly from 400 trees. It was thought gener- ally a better year for curculio than peaches. In i868 the crop of peaches shipped from this port was about 52o,000 bask- ets. In ]«f;0 about 750,000. In 1870 about 157,000. In 1868 and 1809, I jarred the trees, using a sheet as other.s did. In 1870 I used nothing but the "Rauso:n method," as my friend Riley terms it. Now compare the number of baskets of 1870 with those of 18G9, and the crop will be seen to be from one-sixth to one-sev- enth ; but my crop last year, 1870. fell only a little short of half as many as in 1SG9, and was as large as in ISOS, (when I used a sheet,) into 102 baskets ; while the ratio of 1868 to 1869 was about five- sevenths as many. I had about half, as many in 1870, when there was only about one-seventh as many as in 1869, and my Late Crawfords bore well. En 1870 the freeze of April IGth, we all know, killed most of the early and late CraAvfords, so that I had no Crawfords to raise the re- lative proportion of the two years. Now, why was my crop about half as large in 1870 as the year before, with a full crop of Crawfords, while the general last year's crop averaged only about one- seventh? 1 know of no reason except the faithful attention I gave from about May 1st to July, in trappiugthe curculio. From the faith I had in the RfTicioncv of «; t-his method, and the want of faith among some prominent horticulturists, and the discouraging manner they spoke and wrote of it, I raised my back a la curculio to fully test its efficiency. To show the result of this coufideuco, and to put all theorizing at rest, I will here state my most careful investigations and experience as to the loss of my last year's crop by the curculio. From previ- ous statements it will be seen that my crop of 1870 bore about fifty per cent. ratio to the large crop of 186!), while the ceueral ratio of last year was only about one-seventh of 18G9. I carefully picked from the ground and from the trees during the entire season, all wormy and blasted fruit. I cut this fruit carefully by hundreds to form as accurate an estimate as possible of the per cent of the wormy to blasted peaches. I counted at different times the number of these peaches in a basket. I estimated that for the season an average of 2,400 of these small peaches filled a basket. I picked the very smallest. I found the basket averaged about one half wormy and one-half blasted. Reducing all of those picked up to baskets, gave mo the number of peaches destroyed by the cur- culio. Allowing 125 good fair ripe peach es as the average of a basket, gave me the number of baskets lost by curculio. The result was, (making estimates large' onough) 257 baskets. In this estimate 1 was exceedingly careful, and I think I fully covered the loss, which I think was tribute enough to the curculio ; 257 bask- ets at one dollar per basket is $257. That was my last year's tax collected by his Mahamedan highness- I will leave others to figure up and take their receipts for custom dues to his im- perial majesty. I have asked a large number of fruit growers what per cent, of last year's peach crop they thouj^ht was destroyed by the curculio. None say less than halt, many, very inany, two-thirds. — With these estimates I agree as to the general crop. Some, however, lost all their peaches by the curculio. The peaches were saved in the ratio of the diligence used in destroying the curculio. Now if half the crop was destroyed by them in 1870, and peaches brought $1 per basket, they destroyed $157,000 worth of peaches. If two-thirds were destroyed, this fruit region paid tribute to them last year of .$314,000. I simply ask can we afford to pay it ? I answer no. If there is any way to redress this evil, let us do it. I am not speaking of any curculio but the one that attacks our cherries, peach- es, and plums, and, so far as 1 know, the same one attacks our apples ; for 1 have bred several from apples the past year, and they are all conoirachadas, and not of the quadrigibhus species. There are a hundred kindred species of snout beetles that are puncturing all fruits and nuts. — One species last year destroyed all the black walnuts on the rivers and streams in Kansas. Every species haij its pre- dilection for fruit. Last year, the first and second days of May were warm, and brought the curculio from their hibernating places. Being on the watch for them, I began to study their habits, and gained a point in advance of what I learned the previous year. I ex- amined in the cracks and crevices of the ground near the trees, and found them hid away. I then searched under loave.s, sticks, and lumps of dirt. There I found them. This gave me the hint to save them the trouble of looking up a lodging place for themselves, so I smoothed down the ground and put down traps of various kinds and sizes until I found traps »; suc- cess. I will here again say, that to suc- ceed, the ground must be made sraootJi and clean, so as to give them no hiding place near the tree but the traps. The majority do not fly after enteriag the or- chard, but remain on the ground during the early part of the season, except as they ascend the trees on warm nights to feed, and descend for shelter in the morn- ing. During this part of the season, I dis- covered no difference in any kind of traps if properly put around the tree. After the weather became warm, but few were found under stones or pieces of briek. I have used everything for a trap as an ex- periment. I like pieces of old dead black oak bark, from two to four inches square. Take that which has fallen off and worn the ross and little fibrous bark off, so as to have no cracks in it for the curculio to hide in. One side is concave, the edges are generally uneven, so that when put up to the tree they give holes for the beetle to crawl under next to the tree whenjdesc- ending. This hollow in the inner side 'of the bark, when placed on the smooth I most of them uudor the traps. To test ,i,ri-ound, gives a sufficient vacnmn for the matter whether they feed uio-hts onlv and went down in the raorning-, M'hioh I tiiem to attach themselves to the bark and just clear the ground, which they seom to prefer. The traps want but a small space beneath, say a quarter of an inch, and all the edges close to the ground, only just so that a curculio can crawl under had observed them doing frequently, the sun half an hour or so high. I went thro' the orchard to about a hundred trees, at () o'clock P. M., and found from five to ten to the traps of each tree. Then again iu several places. I prefer bark because about dusk I took my lantern and went it has a concave side, and does not warp to rows of trees alongside of those whare with the sun, while most other traps warp I found them before sundown, and cxam- and leave the edges too high and the cen- j ined' about the same unmbor of traps and tre too close to the ground. Lath, blocks, i found only one curculio. Then the noxt chips, bits of boards, (unless of the size morning at sunrise, I went to the same we may suppose Mrs. Weirs' were, viz : | tree.? I visited with the lantern and found building lumber), are either eouvex or [ from five to ten under the traps of each warp with the sun and raise the edges, tree. To see if lights would attract tliem thus bringing the centre to the ground Observation and experience will teach any one to succeed. The traps must all be set over after a rain, as it closes t-ho edrjos with dirt washed up around them. I followed the traps daily from the iirst of May to the first of July. There were l)ut few days that I did not catch curculio .vteadily. On June 23d, 24th and 25th, I caught about as many as any days after the lint week's trapping, and more than on any but three or four davs. On the 23d, 2;)8; on the 24th, 3Gl' The ther- mometer ranged from 9()° to 104°. These curculio I am sui'c were uot that year's l)rood. Some things I think I settled definitely about their habits. On their first appearance in the spring they are active, nightly feeders, if it is sufficiently warm. They ap- pe:>r in the orchard as soon as it is warm enough to start the leaves and fruit buds. They feed voraciously ou warm nights 'on the tonder starting leaves. — AVhen it is eold they do not feed. Thay ascend the trees just at evening and descend in the morning to find hiding |)lacos ou the ground. JV lew will be I'ound on the underside of the lateral limbo. They will principally hide under the nearest covert to the tree, Very i'Qw remain on the tree. When the trees arc in full foliage cur- culios will not all descend every day ; but they travel a good deal except Avheu the female is laying eggs fast and is sluggish. When not found under the traps daily, go tlirough the orchard v/ith a rubber nuillet and jar the trees thoroughly as with a sheet, and let the beetles fall on the ground. la the afteruoou you will have I spent several warm nights until 10 or II o'clock burning bright fires with small brush ; most other insects were attracted, but uot a curculio, not one ! They probably, when under the traps, remain there during the day, so that per- haps it is well to examine them in the afternoon, and especially later iu the season when ij; may be beat to jar the trees in the morning, and then give them time to crawl under before examining tho traps. The curculio begau here last year to deposit their eggs in about throe weeks from their first appear.->uec, or from May 20th to the 22d. The first peaches I found from which the larvae had escaped was from June 28th to the 2Gth. I put the larvae into a breeding jar June 2Gth ; they iiufnedialely entered the ground. — Cetwceu July 20th and 2(]th the beetles began to come out. They usually pass from twenty to thirty days in the ground ; the majority from twenty to twenty-five days. It thus stands very nearly : May 20th they begin depositing their eggs ; June 20th the larvae begin entering the ground ; July 20th the first beetles begin to come out of the ground. Last year but few if any ])eachcs were punctured by the curculio after the first of July. Not later than July Gth I am sure, if really as late as that. The only ripe peaches we find many worms in are Hale's Early, which began to ripen Au- gust 1st, and there are no peaches found with worms in of consequences after a week or ten days' picking, and these con- tain larvae nearly mature. This, allow- ing four weeks for them to mature in the peach, shows they do not deposit eggs much if any aflei' July 1st. Tlieu, the more succuleut and ripe the peach, the longer they remain in it, and the larger the larvae grows. This settles beyond all doubt to my mind that ■we are cursed with only one good healthy, active working crop of cur- culio a year. I have no doubt but all curculio larvae perfect the beetle state and leave the ground the same year, no matter what time they enter the ground. I know it is thought the majority remain in the ground till the next spring. 1 be- lieve evoi'y one transforms tlio same sea- son. I kept them as late as Sept. 21st, before letting them enter the ground, and Oct. IGth an examination showed the perfect beetle, black but not yet emerged from the transforming cavity. About June 25th I put dry hard little peaches containing larvae in a jar without dirt or moisture. They will not die for a long time. They will not transform except in the earth. Jlany of these I kept till into September. During the summer I took larvae at different tunes from this jar and examined them, and put them in earth, from which as usual they Avent through the transformation in • 20 to 30 days. All the oM horticultural vvorX's, as well as many horticulturists, now think they remain in the ground until the next ."spring. This is disproved beyond a doubt to my mind. The number of eggs a single female will deposit in one season remains unknown so 'ar as my knowledge goes. As to their hiberuatinglocality, or place they have tlse mastery of me. I have prepared wliat I supjjosed were attractive places ia my orchard lor them, and day ■ after day examined them with care, and ; also other places, late last fall and this ; wiuter, but aai yet ignorant of where the ! beetles pass the winter, except what oth' | ers say ; of which I am very distrustful. [ J From the testimony of many it seems that | they gather ia numbers in old stumps, | logs, and under the bark of trees or tim- j ber. But this thing needs further inves- j tigation. If true it may give some furth- j er clue to their future destruction. . i Perhaps I should speak of l^-of. Riley's j parasites of which he has wriiten. I have i seen them and tried hours to have cne j feast on a good fa^ curculio egg, fnim i which he turned continuously, iis much as 1 to say: No, Ilhank you sir. And as to his selling Illinois fruit growers next year a parasite that destroys the mature lar- vae, I fear he has stolen my thunder — When he was here in last June, I showed him the parasite larvae, which was new to him, and he requested me to breed some. I can furnish him a pair noiv lo go into their piopagation in advance of waiting until nextsummerto supply Illinois horti- culturists at $1 or $2 a pair. Michigan will };eep under her curculios with the Ransom traps if we attend to it as wu should. I have here in this vial some of the* perfect fly of this new ''Michigan" parasite, so that when Prof. Riley begins to sell, you maj' all know it in advance of his sending them forth to the world claim- ing its discovery. Thislittlc wasp-like fly as you will see its ovipositor can rcaoli the curculio larvae in the peach and de- posit an egg on it, which grow together until the parasite larvae kills the curculio larvae, and then furnishes itself a cocoon and transforms in the same peach. 1 bred large numbers last year. If they should increase much, they will be of 3ome use to us in killing the cui-culio larvae; unless we export them to Missouri, Illinois or somewhere else so ,as to have a short supply here. There are many things remaining of much importance, Avhich I have not time to present; as I have already trespassed long on A-our pa- tience. 'Discoveries remain to be made as to their natural habits. Do they live o