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WEAVEL. . A little black bu^, very destructive to wheat, 

 either in barns or graneries. OnT thrusting your hand into 

 a bin of wheat infested with them, considerable warmth will 

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

 part of the heap or bin should be examined. 



There are various ways of keeping wheat clear of this 

 insect, after it has been threshed out and put in bins. Mr. 

 L'Hommedieu found that a spnnkting of lime with wheat, 

 infested with them, in his bin, soon drove them away. The 

 lime can be afterwards winnowed out. 



Sulphur or 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 posses- 

 sion. 



A plant of henbane has the same effect; and so has the 

 leaves and wood of the lombardy poplar. A bin made of 

 boards of this wood will never have a Weavel in it. 



Take wet linen cloths, and lay them over a heap or bin 

 of wheat, with Weavel in it, and they will soon come out 

 of the wheat, and get upon the cloths; when, by diping these 

 in water again, the insects are readily destroyed. 



They may also be sifted out of wheat, by a sieve which 

 will let them through and retain the wheat. 



It would seern that the readiest way to keep them out 

 of mows of wheat, before threshing, would be to mix little 

 pieces of the lombardy poplar every where through the 

 mow, in laying the sheaves away. Perhaps common salt 

 is as offensive to this insect, as to most others ; and, if so, 

 to sprinkle some among the sheaves, when laying them 

 down, might answer the double purpose, of keeping out the 

 Weavel and improving the straw for fodder. 



GRASSHUPERS. Prodigious quantities of these are some 

 years generated in upland mowing-grounds. Upland pas 

 tures 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 de~ 



