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Article XXVI. 



On the Damage of Fir^PlantatioHSi in reply to the 

 enquiry inftitutedby this Society^ ds before alluded /#► 

 by Mr. Davis of Longleat. 



TO THE SECRETARV. 



Sir, 



UPON reading over the minutes of the laft 

 general meeting of the Bath Agriculture 

 Society, as advertifcd by you the 14th June laft, I 

 obierved that the fociety had received information 

 from Mr. Horner, that his fir-plantations at Mells 

 park have of late years fuffered in a very alarming 

 manner by fquirrels preying upon the bark, whereby 

 great numbers of his fineft trees have been killed, 

 ahd a general deftru<5tion threatened; and that the 

 fcdety, wiftied to inftitute an enquiry how far other 

 gentlemen's woods have fuffered from the fame 

 caule, and would be obliged by any communica- 

 tions on the fubjeft, 



Happy in complying with the wifhes of my 

 brother members of the fociety, I take up my pen 

 to inform them, that I have been a fellow-fuffcrcr 

 with Mr. Horner, for near thefe dozen years laft 

 paft, in my fir-plantations at this place, from the 

 lame dcftruftive animals. 



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