!* fa I N U T E S AUG. 



1 2^ Mr. James Carter, having one fide of a clofe 



"CATER?. entirely eaten up, and the other fide, which 



had been fown later, entirely free from ca- 

 terpillars, dug a trench between the two 

 parts, and put fome lime in the bottom of it, 

 - by which artful expedient he fitved his turneps : 

 for the caterpillars, in attempting to crofs the 

 trench in fearch of frefli pafturage, fell among 

 the lime, and were fmothcred. Mr. Bayfield 

 fays, that if the weather be dry, digging a 

 trench without the lime will flop them : for 

 the fide of the trench being dufty they cannot 

 crawl up, but roll back to the bottom ; and 

 by repeated attempts become exhaufted. 



The farmers who hoed their plants while the 

 caterpillars were upon them, and without 

 ufing any precaution, inevitably loft their 

 crops, befidcs lofing the expence of hoeing ; 

 for after the operation the whole of the cater- 

 pillars fell of courfe upon the comparatively 

 few plants which then remained, and prefently 

 eat them down to the clods. 



In this cafe, the only remedy is to plow 

 up the ground and fow a-frefh ; an expedient 

 which has been obliged to be pradtifed on, 

 perhaps, fome hundred acres of turnep-ground 

 this year. 



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