Address for the Westmoreland County Agricultural Society
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lb nee, we see that the function of science is to assist the farmer even as a Destroyer. The Entomologist watches with care and perseverance the ways of insects, the manner by which they propagate, the food they most delight in, and he traces their habits in all the stages of their metamorphoses, lie marks their times and seasons, points them out when in a helpless condition, shows when a blow aimed at them will be most destructive, in short, he is a spy in their camp for the purpose of giving ...their great enemy, the farmer, all the information necessary to defeat them. II> also discovers more — that some of these insects are not only not injurious, but even useful, from the fact that they are the most terrible enemies of others which are hurtful, killing large numbers of them. AGRICULTURAL ADDRESS. 15 How important, then, that the Agriculturalist should not suffer all this labor and learning to be lost, but that he should encourage and practice the lessons it teaches him ; and some day all the pests that now scourge him, and often ravage a whole crop for him, will be as easily provided against as to keep the hogs out of his fields.
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