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'wolves, and other beasts of prey, in our new countries. In our 

 old settlements they are as necessary to protect flocks from other 



this method. Sheep have been preserved from destruction by dogs by col' 

 lars filled with sharp pointed nails. No doubt the same guard against ivolves^ 

 would be equally effectual.* 



Many smells are disgusting to animals. It is a jockey's trick, — calculated to 

 throw the work on a dull horse, — or one not his own, — coupled with another 

 horse, to rub assafxtida, aloes, or some forbidding drug, on the horse he 

 wishes to spare. The other horse presses forward, with ceaseless exertion, 

 to leave the nauseating scent behind him. The dog and the tvoI/ may have 

 an antipathy to the smell, and taste, of the loathsome ointment hereafter 

 described. Should the unguents required to cure the cutaneous diseases of 

 the Merijioes, shield them from dogs and loolves ; no small good would flow 

 from a most deplorable evil. 



I believe the horse has an antipathy to assafosiida. This is otherwise with 

 other animals. Possibly those which even like the smell when slight, are 

 disgusted, when it is heavy and powerful. This may be the case, with the 

 horse. Wolves are enticed by a trail, or bait, tinged with assafcetida. 

 RatSy and wice, are fond of this drug, or that of mnsk ; though they prefer 

 the odour of the oil of vhodittm, to any other. I have heretofore mentioned, 

 that -ivhite-iuash embued with oil of vitriol, is a repellent to flies, which will 

 not settle on a wall covered with this mixture. The sulphuric acid also 

 banishes bugs from bedsteads. 



It would be greatly beneficial to farmers, gardeners, and all who are sub- 

 ]ect to be visited by destructive vermin, if the nature and qualities of 

 any substances, drugs, plants, flowers, &c. likely to be thus useful, were 

 studied; with tlie view to discover their repelling-, as well as inviting facul- 

 ties. JSWer powers, Ave know, drive off' some insects; mhify others. Pennij- 

 royal will expel ^eas, from beds, or apartments infested by them; and may 

 be used either in substance, infusion, or decoction, for banishing this vile 

 pest, from dogs, sivine, or other animals. Hound'' s-tongue, is detested by mice 

 and moles. The smell of dead crabs and lobsters, is also disgusting to them. 

 It will also expel, from a granary, the loeevil. Tobacco is so inviting to ~vee- 

 •vil, that there is no surer way of completely destroying them, than placing 

 refuse tobacco, in gi-anaries. The weevil eat, greedily, of the tobacco, and 

 die. I could enumerate other instances ; but those I have mentioned, aie 

 sufficient to shew the uses to which the subject may be applied. 



* SHEEP. 

 *' A simple and effectual method of preventing the destruction of sheep by 

 <* wolves. — Communicated to the Society for the promotion of Useful Arts In 



