The Arkansas banner., 1843-10-07

been won by your valor, the pleasure WHICH then filled your bosom was not in chasing a flying and terrified enemy, nor in waving the ensiens of victory over fields crimsoned with blood and strewed with the dying and the dead. o no; but you then found your rich est pleasure in having performed what you deemed your duty to your country, m break ing the rod of the oppressor, and Tn vlndl- eating the rights and liberties of mankind; so, too, my Lord, in the patriotic and gener- ous devotion of your time and talents to win more humble field, and to achieve yicto- ries, not by the sword, but by the plough, your highest qualification, and that of your 1 high-minded associates, will be found, not in any mere triumphs of art or skill, not ill any selfish or merely pecuniary accumula- tions, but in multiplying and improving the productions of the earth to the widest extent, by all the appliances of industry, art, and sci ence, that so the general and universal com fort and happiness of all classes, of those who must take care of themselves, and of those whom others must take care ol. may be everywhere promoted.
 From He Baltimore American.
 ELM TREES.
 Many of our readers have had occasion to regret the sad havoc made of the beautiful foliage of the elm trees planted in various parts of this city, by the annual return of destructive insect, whose ravages appear to be exclusively confined to this species of shade-tree. In some cases, the destruction of foliage has been so thorough for success sive years, that the trees have been cut down as nuisance. Nowhere, perhaps, has this devastation been more strikingly apparent than in the walks of Green Mount Cemetery, which abound in some of the finest speci- mems of this beautiful tree. It will, there fore, be a matter of qualification to know that mode of destroying this troublesome insect has been discovered, which Is not only simple, but is vouched to be eflectual, by scientific gentleman, in whom the whole country has confidence. In reply to letter from Frederick A. Schley, Esq, of Frederick, asking information on the subject, Professor Silliman thus writes:
 Neg Hacen, Jug. 19, 1913.
 DEAR SIR-I am happy to afford you the information you desire. We have succeeded in destroying the worms, or rather female insects which produce them. Our trees are surrounded by girdle of sheet lead, turned up at the edge so as to form trough, which Is half filled with oil, and girdle or circle of lead Is soldered together at the ends, fixed on the tree with packing of straw or hay beneath 1t. It Is pended or cut so as to pre- sent kind of cheraar dc .tfisc, pointing downwards. This arrests the ascending fe- male, or, if she surmounts this obstacle, ,J Ix.x ,I, trench. The female is apterous, or wingless "a dark, ugly insect, with legs; the male is gray white miller, with wings, and he can fly over the fatal ditch, but often dies there with his mate.
 ii he should pass, however, 1t will be in vain, as the eggs must be deposited on the branches by the female, to be ready for hatch ing with the first warmth of spring. As soon as they are matched, they attack the young and tender leaves; and when they are full grown, (which is, here, about June 10,) they spin down as worms, bury themselves ill the soil, become changed into the chrysalides, which liberate the insects even in the warm days ot autumn, and in winter itself, when the weather is warm for the season, and the ground IS neither frozen nor covered with snow. It IS prudent, therefore, to keep the oil in the trough the year round, except, perhaps, the severest part of winter.
 In the very earliest days of spring, or the close of winter, the insects begin to ascend especially in the night, beginning with the close of the evening. If you then go out with light, you will often find them troop Ing up--sometmes in great numbers. Il have been obliged, occasionally, to clear the uoughs of the innumerable dead This sys- tenn was pursued for two or three years before 1 we conquered; but 1t might as well have | been done in one season, had the plan been universally adopted and faithfully carried out.
 l have a collection of choice apple trees which Were attacked in the same manner Now, they and all the trees in our city are free from this disgusting nuisance, and are beautiful again, and reviving. A few had died-and all must have died, had their lungs (the leaves) been entirely extirpated.
 Mir. George Walker is the person who has up, should suppose, thousand or more of these protectors, at an expense of from fifty cents to seventy-five cents, or even more, if tue tree were very large. You should be in season with your protectors, if you would prevent the mischief for the next year.
 suppose Mir. Walker, or his brother and partner, would visit you, if desired. and your citizens would come generally into the mea- sure.
 1 remain, my dear sir,
 yours, very truly and respectfully,
 B. SULLIVAN.
 F. A. SoHLEy Esq.