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The tick, or tike, is the sheep 

 louse. When these insects become 

 muin^^rous, they are very hurtful 

 to the sheep. In England the far- 

 mer smears the sheep, after shear- 

 ing, with a nnixture of butter and 

 tar. 'I'his fortifies them against be- 

 ing injured, either by the weather, 

 or by itisects. But at any time, 

 od, or tobacco, will destroy the 

 ticks. A worm has of late years, 

 near Boston, proved fatal to the 

 apple tree, quince tree, and moun- 

 tain ash. It is a borer wl/ich sub- 

 sists in the sap-wood or alburnum- 

 It can only be killed, and the 

 trees saved, by cutting them out 

 in the month of May by a gouging 

 chi-'Sel. Thousands of trees have 

 been saved by this expedient. 



IN FERVAL, the space between 

 two places, or things. The word is 

 used in husbandry to denote the 

 space between rows of corn, or 

 other vegetables ; especially in 

 the horse-hoeing husbandry. 



By interval, also, and more 

 usually in this country, is under- 

 stood lai.d OH the border of a river. 

 lnt«^rv-tl laud is commonly so high 

 and dry as to be fit for tillage ; and 

 ye I liwavs so low as to be fre- 

 quent! v overflowed by the swel- 

 ling; of rivers, especially in the 

 spring. On some of these lands 

 the water often continues so late in 

 the spring that they cannot be 

 seeded till June. But the in- 

 creased fruitfulness of the soil 

 seems to more than make up for 

 this delay. For when the waters 

 subside, they leave a fat slime upon 

 the soil, most friendly to vegeta- 

 tion. 



The soil on these intervals is 



most commonly sand, with a large 

 mixture of the finest vegetable 

 mould ; and much of it is made, 

 from time to time, by the shifting 

 of the channels of rivers. 



This sort of land has generally 

 been prized highly in this country. 

 But in some places it has become 

 less fruitful of late than formerly. 

 The reason of this alteration most 

 probably is, that the floods are not 

 so great as formerly, or that they 

 subside quicker ; owing to the more 

 cultivated state of the country, and 

 a quicker evaporation of the wa- 

 ters. 



K. 



KALE, Colewort, an excellent 

 potherb, early, and of quick growth, 

 which ought to be cultivated in this 

 country. 



Sea Kale. A plant introduced 

 within forty years in Great Britain. 

 It istheCrambeMaritima. ltd leaves 

 blanched by having the earth heap- 

 ed round them, are as delicious and 

 much resemble the Cauliflower. 

 For further description, see the 

 AJassachusetts Agricultural Socie- 

 ty's Journal of June, 1822. 



KALENDAR, an account of 

 time. That great naturalist, 

 Linnaeus, did not approve of far- 

 mers' confining themselves to cer- 

 tain set dajs, or weeks, for commit- 

 ting their seeds to the earth. The 

 seasons are much forwarder in some 

 years than in others. Therefore, 

 he, who thus governs himself, will 

 assuredly sow his annual seeds 

 sometimes too early ,and sometimes 

 too late. 



That a better practice might be 

 introduced, he recommended it to 



