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Gnats and Flies. Ash leaves bung up in a 

 room, attracts them, that they are less trouble- 

 some; also balls made of new horse dung and 

 laid in a room will do the same; by this means 

 you may overwhelm them with a basin, and keep 

 them there. 



Worms. 



Water wherein the leaves and seed of hemp is 

 sodden, sprinkled on the earth, brings them out. 



Worms. Sea water sprinkled on the ground, 

 kills them. Or salt and water made into brine, 

 and sprinkled on the ground. Some say, soot 

 strewed on the ground kills them. Others com- 

 mend chalk and lime strewed on the ground. 



Take a quantity of green walnut husks, and 

 rub them on a brick or tile, holding them at the 

 bottom of a pail of water till the water is become 

 bitter, which sprinkle on the ground brings the 

 worms out in a quarter of an hour. 



Worms in gardens, s?c. 



Water your bed with the brine of salt meat, 

 and it kills them: or water your garden with a 

 strong lixivium made of ashes; or lay ashes or 

 lime about any plant, and neither snails nor worms 

 will come near it: as the moisture weakens, you 

 may renew it. Some smoke their holes u ith ox 

 or row dung: or the mother of oiLsprinkled on 

 their holes, kills them. 



Worms. St-ethe the leaves and seeds of hemp 

 in water, and sprinkle it on the earth, brings forth 

 worms. Or take a poker, with two prongs is best, 

 and stick it in the ground, and shake it well, 

 brings out worms: morning and evening is the 

 best time. 



Worms in Jlpple -trees. 



Lay a sea onion about the trees, to preserve 



