292 MINUTES AUG. 



122. off? but cannot learn that it ever proved efTec- 

 TURNEP tual. 



PILLARS. A labourer tells me, that in the " canker 



" year," about twenty years ago, the bed contri- 

 vance that was then hit upon was a kind of 

 brufh made of furze ; by fixing the branclies to 

 a long pole or axle-tree, with a wheel at each 

 end, of fuch a height that the furze brufhed 

 the plants without pulling them up by the 

 roots. '] his not only bruftied the caterpillars 

 off the plants, but numbers of them were 

 ftabbed and deftroyed by the prickles of the 

 furze. This, in theory, is very plaufible, and 

 might be good in practice ; but I have not feen 

 it, nor heard of its being ufed, this year. 



The expedient which has this year caught 

 popular attention moft, is that of brufhing 

 the plants with twigs of elder tied upon a 

 waggon-rope. 



Yeflerday, -having heard much of the fuc- 

 cefs of this expedient, I called upon the 

 farmer * who had gained the moft credit by 

 it, to learn from himfelf the particulars ; and 

 to fee the plants. 



The brufti is judiciouily made of the ftraight 

 luxuriant moots of this year, about the thick- 



* Mr. Jonathan Bond, of South-Reps. 



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