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will be felt ; but, as they are usually collected together, 

 every part of the heap or bin should be examined. 



Sulphur snuff, put up in little papers, or bags, and 

 properly distributed among the wheat, in the bin, will 

 keep them out, or drive them out when they have got 

 possession. 



Grass-hoppers, 



Prodigious quantities of these are sometimes gene- 

 rated in upland-mowing grounds. Upland pastures do 

 not produce so many, owing probably to the feet of the 

 cattle destroying many, before they are brought forth. 

 Low wet meadows or pastures seldom produce many of 

 them. The only known remedy against them, and it 

 is sometimes very inadequate, is to destroy them by 

 raising large flocks of turkies and other poultry, which 

 feed on them. 



Lice on cattle, and ticks on sheep, may be added to 

 the catalogue of destructive insects. 



Where colts and young neat-cattle become lousy, by 

 reason of poor keeping, or otherwise, the lice are to 

 be destroyed by oiling the creature, or washing it with 

 a decoction of tobacco ; and they should have better 

 keeping, to prevent a return of the lice. 



And where a sheep becomes full of ticks, which will 

 sometimes kill the animal if not removed, they may be 

 destroyed by a fumigation of tobacco smoke, as is de- 

 scribed under sheep. 



But the easiest method is to part the wool of the 

 animal on each side of its spine from its head to its 

 tail, and drop in some Scotch snufl* along in each open- 

 ing, and this will soon free the sheep of its vermin. 

 Where it requires immediate relief, however, recourse 

 should be had to the method first-mentioned. 



