VI.] CULTIVATION. 



the field about ten nights running, just after the 

 corn begins to appear above ground. 



88. If slugs infest the middle of the field, to 

 kill them will require a little more trouble ; but 

 it is easily done. Go along each row of corn, 

 and shake the bag over the row at every third 

 step, or thereabouts. As it would be difficult to 

 do this in the dark, it may suffice to do it a little 

 before sun-set; or, very early in the morning. 

 This remedy is effectual, and is neither trouble- 

 some nor costly ; and slugs, if abundant, and if 

 let alone, make great havoc, and in quick time; 

 witness the transplanted lettuce-beds of careless 

 gardeners. It is useless to fling coarse lime 

 about. The lime must be very fine, fine as the 

 finest flour. It then touches all the ground ; 

 and is certain destruction to slugs, and to snails 

 also, if it light on them when they are out of 

 their shells. 



89. But there are other mglit-foes far more 

 destructive than slugs ; and these are, in most 

 cases, protected by the law : I mean hai'cs and 

 rabbits! Yet, if you have these to any extent, 

 and dare not kill them, you must not think of 

 planting corn. One hare will nip off a whole row, 

 in one night, forty or fifty rods long. In many 

 parts these animals do great injury to all the 

 straw-crops ; what, then, must they do to corn ! 

 If there be but feiv of them, you may, by good 



