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What I would therefore propofe is, that ^n acre 

 of turnips be fown in the ufual way, and afcer the 

 ground is finifhcd, for the feedfman to throw on a 

 peck or more of dry foot, as regularly as he fows 

 the feed. If I am not very much miftaken, this 

 will banifti or deftroy all the black fleas, [flies] and 

 by that means fave the crops* 



^dly. When firft I came to the houfe I now in- 

 habit, we were much troubled in the night by the 

 noife of rats. Mentioning this circumftance to the 

 farmer, who was about to leave the premifes, he 

 told me they had done great damage in the barnS 

 and corn-ricks. In the fide of a bank which rari 

 along the path-way to my barn, I obferved a num- 

 ber of holes, in which the rats harboured and bred 

 in warm weather. The next day making fome 

 matches with flips of brown paper dipt in brim- 

 (lone, I put them into the holes — the mouths 

 whereof I fl:opt, to drive the fmoak inwards. 

 After the matches were burnt out, my man opened 

 the ground, where we found feveral nefts; but both 

 old and young were fled. The rats left my houfe, 

 barn, and fl:ables, diredly ; and for ^wt years pafi: 

 have never returned. The difagreeable fmell of 

 the burnt brimfl:one, doubtlcfs, occafioned their 

 leaving the premifes. I would therefore propofe, 



Vot. I. Q^ that 



