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not anfwered— perhaps the following may be ncioro 

 efficacious: The boughs of the common elder- tree, 

 fixed in a gate, and drawn gently over young tur- 

 nips when they firil appear, will prove an excellent 

 prefervative from the fly; and if the leaves of the 

 faid boughs be a little bruifed, and fumigated with 

 the fmoak of burnt tobacco mixed with a fmall 

 quantity of aflafoetida, it will deftroy thofe infe6ts 

 effeftually. It will alfo be of great ufe to brufh 

 the leaves and branches of your wall-fruit trees 

 with elder boughs thus prepared. Nothing is fo 

 difagreeable to infc6ts as a mixture of tobacco and 

 aflafoetida fumigations. It will kill ^hem inftandy 

 wherever applied. 



I live at too great a diftance to attend your meet- 

 ing, but wifh to promote your laudable defigns as 

 far as I am able. 



J am, &c. 



taunton-Bean, Julj 4, 1778, 



To the above letter, we think it not improper 

 to fubjoin an extrad from another, fince received 

 from a gentleman at Exeter j and recommend the 

 experiments mentioned in both as a rcnaedy for the 

 fly in turnipso 



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