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less ; and I think, from observation, it may be added, 

 that the injury is in proportion to the quantity of soil dis- 

 turbed. The mode practised some where, as published 

 in the news-papers, of making a hole in each hill, I am 

 told, was tried by one of my neighbours, but did not 

 succeed, as in the only instance where he found worms 

 in the hole, they had cut off the corn before they fell m it!* 

 In Virginia, we cultivate so much land in corn, in order 

 to make the necessary quantity for man, horse, and ox, 

 that it would seem to be a task of hopeless termination, 

 to erect a pit-fall in every hill, especially in light and 

 crumbling lands. 



I am, sir, your obedient servant, 



John Love, 

 Mr. Roberts Vaux. 

 f The holes ought to be made in the track of the insect. J. M, 





