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But this is ineligible. No implement can 

 come upon the furface to drefs it ; and the 

 caps are liable to be mifplaced by cattle and 

 other flock. 



The practice of GELDING * has lately been 

 introduced. The greateft nicety of the art, 

 1 find, lies in clearing away the fkirts of the 

 Core effectually j fo that when the flaps are 

 returned, a rim, rifing above the furrounding 

 furface, be not left for the moulding-fledge 

 or other implement to lay hold of. 



It this operation be performed in autumn^ 

 the frofts and rains of winter will temper the 

 cores, and in the firft dry weather of fpring 

 the moulding-fledge will readily reducethem, 

 and lodge them at the roots of the grafs. 



If the operation be imperfectly done, or the 

 lumps of core remain ftubborn, a heavy rol- 

 ler fhould be run over the furface before the 

 moulding-fledge be ufed. 



No man who has attended to the quality of 

 \ktbtfrbage of ant -bills needs any argument to 

 convince him of the propriety of bellowing 

 a little attention on the moil eligible means 

 pf extirpation. 



3. 

 * See NORF. ECON. Vol. II. p. 85. 



