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Extirpation of Wild Garlick. By Richard Peters. 
Read December 11th, 1809. 
Belmont, November 29th, 1809. 
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As we have no communication on the subject of de- 
stroying Garlick, [have copied one, made to our agri- 
cultural society of Blockley and Merion, by my very 
attentive and respectable neighbour, /gernon Roberts. 
It proves the efficiency of repetitions of plaister of 
Paris, in addition to the object inducing its being made. 
‘In the spring of 1802, I planted a field of about 15 
acres with Indian corn; in the succeeding fall I limed 
it, with 40 bushels per acre, The following spring 
(1803) I planted it again with Indian corn. It produced 
avery poor crop; which I attributed more to a want 
of proper cultivation, than any other cause. —The suc- 
ceeding spring (1804) I sowed the field with oats, After 
getting off the oats, I ploughed down the stubble, har. 
rowed well, and sowed the ground with clover seed, 
The season being very dry, the seed did not take to 
answer my expectations. I next spring (1805) sowed 
the field with oats; and after harrowing in the oats, I 
sowed two bushels of clover seed, and then rolled the 
eround.—The seed took exceeding well; and that fall 
produced a good crop of pasture. In the spring of 1806, 
I sowed the field, with 29 bushels of plaister, and it pro- 
duced pasture fully to my expectation. In the spring 
of 1807, I sowed 22 bushels of plaister, and the pasture 
