66 FACT AGAINST FICTION'. 



its lower side with liquid gas-tar, spread on it 

 with an old broom dipped into an iron kettle hard 

 by. The action of the roller crushes the inequalities 

 of the soil, and dislodges the flies, who, trying to 

 escape to the rear, are caught beneath the tarred 

 sacking, and, stuck by its tenacious qualities, to 

 die from the powerful nature of the texture that 

 holds them. The tar should be sprinkled over the 

 sacking about every twenty miiuites, or as often 

 as the wear and tear of it requires. The very in- 

 telligent farm-servant and shepherd, whom I first 

 saAv using this sim|)le remedy in Surrey, on the 

 property of Lord Lovelace, assured me that it 

 thoroughly answered the purpose to which it had 

 been put. My brother agriculturists may have 

 been previously aware of what to me once was 

 certainly a novelty, but I now tell them in case it 

 should be of service. It certainly is not a costly 

 remedy as against ^' the fly," and it may be 

 most useful to some of my friends who have not 

 money at connnand. 



The rate of wages in different counties varies 

 very nmch, as also the conditions of ^^j^i^ce^ 

 work." In many instances, among amateurs in 

 agriculture, I have observed that in granting 



