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them from worms: if they come naturally, bull's 

 gall, or hog's dung 'mingled with man's urine, and 

 poured to the roots, destroys them: but if they are 

 hard to destroy, the bark must be digged into 

 with a brass pin, or such like tool, and tended till 

 the point takes upon the worms, and drive them 

 front the place: but where there is a place ulcera- 

 ted, stop it with ox-dung. An apple tree plant, the 

 root being anointed with bull's gall, they and their 

 fruit will be free froui worms Mrzaldus, 



Worms to prevent eating chests of drawers, 

 or Wood. 



Rub them with linseed-oil, or, rub them with 

 wormwood, rue, or other bitter herbs, preserves 

 them, and all wooden household stuff that is rub- 

 bed with the lees of linseed-oil and polished, will 

 look pleasant. 



Polecats. 



If you can conveniently have a channel about 

 fyour pigeon house, and that will preserve them and 

 all other fowl, for no beast of prey will take the 

 water. 



Polecats. Some make a dead fall to take them, 

 which is made of a square piece of wood, weigh- 

 ing 40 or #0 lb.: they bore a hole in the middle of 

 the upper side, and set a crooked hook fast in it, 

 also they set four forked stakes fast in the ground, 

 and there lay two slicks across, on which sticks 

 lay a long staff to hold the dead fall up to the crook, 

 and under this crook they put a short stick, fast- 

 en a line to it, and this line must reach down to 

 the bridge below; and this bridge you must make 

 about 5 or 6 inches broad. Then set on both 

 sides of this fall, boards or pales, or hedge it with 

 close rods, and make it ten or twelve inches high; 

 let the passage be no wider than the fall is broad. 



