AGRIJCULTURAL MUSEUM .17i 



which T requested the tenants to be particularly careful 

 to rub oir. It is necessary tliat they be rubbed, and not 

 cut ; for cutting increases the number. 



As our workjLh'ew near a cgneiusion, one of the te- 

 nants said, '" we lUKlerstaiul o(U' business so well, that 

 I wish we had another job;" upon which my servant 

 observed, " 3'ou hud better keep in your own parish, 

 for the people are much dissatisfied." The truth is, we 

 had no comfoi'ters, for the country was against us. If 

 the land had been under my own cidture, I should have 

 taken off half as much, more ; but I did not choose to of- 

 fe.nd ttie person v,l;omI wished to instruct. 



I went down again, in the spring of 1791, to see the 

 eftect, and found the tenants much pleased with the ope- 

 ration ; i did not find one w^ound in an hundred but what 

 was in a clear healing state, and the healing of the wound 

 is the business ; for nothing butprejudice can make a per 

 son think that a tree overloaded vvidi wood will produce 

 good fruit. \ on niayas well expect a crop of turnips with- 

 out hoeing, and lam in great hopes that pruning will be- 

 come as genera) as hoeing ; I am sure it is as necessary. 



The medicated tar above mentioned, as used in the fore- 

 going experiments, was composed of one quarter of an 

 ounce of corrosive sublimate, reduced to fine powder, by 

 beating with a wooden hammer, and then put into a thi-ee 

 pint eaithen pipkin, withabout a glass ii'li oi'gin, or other 

 spirit, stirred well together, and the subliinatc thus dis- 

 solved. The pipkin was then filled, by degrees, with 

 vegL-tab'eor conmion tar, and constantly stirred, till the 

 mixture was blended together as intimately as possible ; 

 and tl'iis quantity will, at any time, be sufficient for two 

 hundred trees. 



To prevent danger, let the corrosive sublimate be 

 mixed with the tar as quickly as possible after it is pur- 

 chased; for, being of a very poisonous natuie to all ani- 

 mals, it should not be sutiVuvd to lie iibou a housC; for 

 fear of uiischief to some ptutof the family 



