290 MINUTES AUG. 



122. high : the turneps were much eaten, but the 

 CATER ? charlocks were flripped to the top. 

 PILLARS. Various experiments have been tried for their 



deftru&ion. 



Mr. Baker tried lime, fowing it in the mid- 

 dle of the night, when the plants were moift 

 with dews, but without effedt. 



He alfo tried rolling. This checked them, 

 efpecially if two or three times repeated, but 

 did not fave the plants. It is obfervable, how- 

 ever, that the plants under the hedges, though 

 they had been run over two or three times with 

 a heavy roller, did not appear to be injured by 

 the operation. 



Mr. Chandler, of Munfley, is faid to have 

 tried foot without effect. 



Ducks have been tried by feveral, and with 

 univerfal fuccefs. 



Poultry are faid to be equally beneficial ; and, 

 if one may judge by a fingle circumftance, 



Rooks are highly ferviceable. A large 

 piece of turneps lying in an open field has efca- 

 ped in a remarkable manner; it lies near a. 

 rookery, which is a general rendezvous for 

 thefe birds ; and I recoiled: to have feen this 

 piece, more than once, covered with them. 



Where 



