Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-09-06

sre willing to give them credit for. but
they have each Of them but one pair Of
eyes and of hands, and their range Of OBJ
servation is necessarily limited and many
lack whichIthey find in their obserya-
tioas as they carry on their work may be
filed BY what one and another has no.
ticed, but most likely thought of too little
value TO be made known. If the farmers
will take hold heartily with the entomol.
ogists and botanists and other naturalists
they will be able by their combined eff
forts to achieve greater victories over the 1
foes of agriculture than have vet been |
gained and thousands Of dollars besides |
very much vexation may be saved. \ |
habit of close and accurate observation /
will be OF very great value in that work |
for one of the greatest obstacles which the /
practical naturalist, for instance the en-
tomologiS,, meets with in the inability OF |
those who have seen a given insect that
nav be ravaging q crop. to relate salts
factorily either 10 themselves or to him |
what they have seen aud what they know. |
Having neglected to observe they have |
not learned how to DO il sufficiently when |
they wish to, and suffer in consequence. |
Many farmers are ready enough to ask
questions as 10 the habits of insects or
other animals which they ought to have
observed for themselves. The scientist
can not DO all tina. needs TO be done, they
need the cooperation of the agriculturists.
And the scientists. some OF them, need
watching. for not all who bear the name
are trustworthy, and the farmer who has
studied for himself the habits OF animals,
will be thereby better able to Judge as to
i.l,a hla aET..aB of rnrntNn-nt 1a1ia-
for their ravages. He will be better able
10 distinguish true science from science
falsely 50 called and this is not of little
Importance as many farmer knows to
| his cost. 4 mistake is often made by
those without scientific training in that
they believe that all is known already that
| can be known of the structure and habits
/ Of common animals and they hesitate
al 1ut devoiing their energies to the inyes
tigation OF these because they supsose that
in so doing they will be doing over what
has already been done before and what
they see they do not tell lest it shall be
twice-told tale.
The fact is that naturalists have only
very imperfec. knowledge Of many very
common objects. The number of an.
finals W hose structure and habits are any.
thing like fully understood is not large,
and | doubt if there be one which may not
reward the close student with new facts.
Hence none need fear lest his labor be in
vain for even if he discovers nothing new
! i. is often quite as importan. that what
has been reported as true, receive the con
irmatioa OF further observation, as it is
that new facts should be discovered All
around him the farmer who cares to know
NAV find the sources OF knowledge. He
need not wait for rare or strange crea-
lures, but take such as are at hand, and
feel sure that he may do good service both
to science and agriculture. Let him be.
Gin with the insects that are az the time
infestng his crops and without asking
others, seek to know for himself where
each species lays its eggs and what sort
of eggs, when there eggs hatch and under
what conditions, into what sort of grub
they develope, how long this grub or lsrva
lives upon what it feeds, (ne very likely
knows this only too we'll already wheth
il can thrive upon one sort of plant or sew
eral, whether any OF the weeds that fringe
his field afford it bsrbor if he succeed in
driving it OF from his crops. He NAV
find our how long it slumbers in the chrys-
ais. and where this is found and in what
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