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withflands the fly better than new feed. This idea 

 k confirmed by a gentleman farmer who fows 

 about eighty acres of turnips annually, and prefers 

 the old feed. 



If the above fuppofition be founded on fadt, 

 what is the caufe of it?* Is it not owing to the new 

 feed being more moid, and on that account pof- 

 felling that greater fvveetnefs of taftc which is fo 

 agreeable to the fly ? Age, we know, takes off* a 

 great part of the fweetnefs in many vegetables; 

 and there are numerous infl:ances in the vegetable 

 kingdom of old feed being found preferable to new. 



On dejiroying Infers on Fmit-7'rees. 

 By the Rev. Mr. Sanders, of Sidmouth, Devon.] 



AT the requeft: of Mr. Lamport, the following 

 experiment, fuccefsfully made on fruit-trees laft 

 year, is now fubmitted to the Bath Society's 

 confideration. 



I made a ftrong deco6lion of tobacco, and the 

 tender flioots of elder, by pouring boiling water 



• We wifti this may become the fubjeft of further enquiry by fbme 

 of our Ligenious conefpondents, 



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