•juncture may do well, both to f-rtifltv, and defence 

 of the Grain again!* Grubs, and Infers, and Worms, 

 that abide in the Earth ; but fureiy .as to bulling, and 

 CroA'sand Birds that fpoil the Corn in the Ear, it 

 has no-influence. 



Moles by watering are drowned, or driven up' to 

 fo narrow a compafs, that they may be eahly taken ; 

 I have known them to have been forc'd to le.we their 

 holes to run upon the Turf, to fave their lives from 

 the Water-flood. Mr. Blltb relates,That one Spring, 

 about March) one Mole-catcher and his Boy, in a- 

 bout ten days time, in a ground of ninety Acres, be- 

 ing juft laid down from Tillage, ,took about three 

 Bufhels, old and yong ; they were not to be num- 

 bred, moil of them being yong and naked, and this 

 he onely did, by cafting up their Nerts, which are 

 always built in a great heap, of double bignefs to the 

 teft, moft eafily difcerned, and then the old ones 

 would come to look their yong, which he would fnap 

 upprefently alfo: At another Seafon then^^£> 

 which is their time of breeding, fuch fuccefs is not 

 to be expected. In other times thebefl way is, if 

 therebe any Hedges near, to fet the Gins or Traps 

 there, for their ordinary roads are in furh Hedges, 

 find other places they cau up,arebut of uncertain ufe; 

 as when they intend forage for one time, though it 

 may be that they minde the ufe of that paflagc no 

 more at all. Btllomm advifes to bury Moles in thofe 

 places, whence you would drive. the reft of that 

 Vermine ; and there may be fomewhat in that re- 

 medy '* For many living Bodies have a great diflike 

 to,and antipathy againft the putrified Bodies of their 

 ownkinde: Thus Worms, putrified at the Belly of 

 a Childc outwardly, and the powder given inwardly, 



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