CHAP, 



224 FARMING FOE, LADIES. [c 



They are in truth insufferable pests in a 

 garden, for they fly so high that no wall can 

 stop them; and they commit extraordinary 

 depredations on peas, beans, and bushes bear- 

 ing any kind of fruit, for, should it be above 

 their reach, they spring up to it with a bound, 

 and pull down the pods and bunches ; nor 

 are ripe strawberries safe from their attacks. 

 We have shot at them repeatedly, with 

 powder, to frighten them, and though they 

 have flown away, yet no sooner was our back 

 turned than they sprang over the fence, and 

 recommenced their havoc. A terrier dog, 

 if taught to hunt them, and kennelled, with- 

 out being chained, in the garden, will indeed 

 have a good effect in keeping them off; but he 

 must be constantly kept there during the whole 

 time of there being either pod or berry grow- 

 ing. A plan has, indeed, been recommended 

 as likely to answer the purpose — which is to 

 closely clip one wing of each chicken, when 

 too young to fly, which, thus destroying 

 their balance when they attempt it, will pre- 

 vent them from rising in the air. This, how- 

 ever, has the inconvenience of depriving the 

 hen of the power of sheltering the whole of 



