Litchfield enquirer., 1843-06-08
IMPROVE ALL THE LAND.

1 would, with little or no after cultivation, pa y 1 the farmer as well as-any other portion of his land. And this need not interfere with the attention demanded by the crops on the main body of the field, but can be done after their wants have been attended 10; and at n time when the farmer is comparatively at leisure.
 This may seem a small matter--but these littles are not 10 be di>piSel. have seen l such strips of headlapd left unoccupied by any useful growth, which if improved as a. bove suggested, would, l verify believe. have yeilded as much profit as accrued from quarter of an acre of the crops in the field -supposng them, if corn, to have given 50, or if potatoes, 200 bushels per acre.
 maintain that it is good policy not only to cultivate a little land and cultivate that well, but also to make every inch of that of use in the production of some crop. Leave no more space than is absolutely necessary for due operation of heat and air, and for working the crop, (and this is much less, in my opinion, than is generally allowed,) and let the borders of the fields be made to con- tribute in some way to the general profit Our acres, improved to the best of our abili- ty, return us but a meagre profit-but the cases are many in which this might be en- hanced by practising the suggestions above submitted. .-N F. Farmer.
 LOOK TO YOUR TREEs.-There is scarcely tree about town, especially the maple and elm, that have not on them myriads of worms in the egg, which about the first of June (mark thaO will hatch out and devour every green leaf on them. Such as desire to pre-. serve their shade trees, and avoid the annoy ance of these unwelcome visitors, whose name is legion, would do well to attend to the matter, as there is no time to be lost.- To eXtermnate them is now comparatively an easy task. The eggs are very plainly to be seen under the main limbs, and in snug places on the trunk, in clusters of about an inch long, attached to the bark by a sort of web like the spider's-sometimes half doZ- en of these clusters within the space of two or three inches square. The remedy is of course to remove them-which may be done easily with a stick or stiff broom. Atree may now be entirely cleared of the vermin in ten minutes.
 These eggs were deposited where they are last fall, and will become canker or measure worms in ten days, as the writer ot this knows from having seen the ravages of these June visitors some three or four years ago, in another city. The plauge of the locusts could scarcely have been more grievous.
 Albany Argus.
 SOMETHING FOR BR1cKMAKERs.-Ifthe man. ufacturers of brick, throughout the length and breadth of the United States would place the date of the year in the bottom of the mat riX, an exceedingly simple aftair-it might be of immense consequence to the future his. torians and antiquarians of this country.- If the face of some printers types were made fast upon the floor of the mould, each brick, when turned out to dry, would have the bate pressed on its side. This would neither i'm pair the quality or injure its beauty. is strange that brckmakers have not done this before, with the addition of their names'- The builders of Babylon stamped their brick with what is called the arroto hedded charac- ter, but no epoch, unfortunately, is recog- niZed by them.
 By attending 10 this trihing matter of i'm. pressing the date of the year--at some unde. fined period of time in ages yet to come-a brick bearing its own age, in the first place would be a curiosity ofintensc interest, ii we suppose no limit to civilization; and when some one, perhaps of countless millions, sur viving the wreck of edifccs that seem to us almost indestructihle, should be brought to light from the ruins ofa city-a brick though it might be- it would bear a record ot for mer times, and tell the whole story of remote epochs, when all other history of the present day in America, had perished in the revolu- lutions of nature and contending empires.- 1J Stamp :he brick-since bricks are the most enduring records of human events known to our race. Boston Ifanscript
 The address of Hon. John Quincy Adams yesterday, before the members of the Massa- chusetts Historical Society, on the occasion of the Second Centennial Celebration of the Confederation ofthe New England Colonies, was one of his happiest efforts. toccupied little less than two hours in ifs delivery, and was listened to with profound attention and intense qualification by numerous and intelligent audience. He gave an interesting sketch of the history of this Confederation, its object, purpose, origin and end, together with much that related to the early history of the Pilgrim Fathers.
 He spoke at some length ofthe wrongsand injuries which the Indians had received al the hands of the whites, but he made honor. able exception in this of our New England fathers, who in no case were the aggressors, but obtained possession by fair purchase- But if there is on earth such thing as retr!' button upon a community for it's transgres. sions, fearful retrbution awaited us, for the wrongs that even now were being enacted against the Indian tribes.
 Mr. Adams gave full account of Roger Williams, and his punishment to Rhode Island, varying somewhat from the unlver- sal impression relative 10 his aIiedged per secutions. According 10 the account of the orator, it was the Colonists who were perse- cuted by the bigotcd intolerance of Will jams, who would give them no peace, and to whom they were very indulgen', in being content with simply getting rid of him.