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Weasels. 



The smell of a burnt cat frights them away, as 

 all insects will be frightened away with their own 

 kinds being burnt. 



Caterpillars. 



Caterpillars destroy the leaves of trees, and de- 

 vour cabbages and other tillage, and are general- 

 ly the effects of great droughts. To prevent their 

 numerous increase on trees, gather them off in 

 winter, taking the prickets away that cleave to 

 the branches, and burn them. 



Or, anoint the tree bottom round about with 

 tar, then get many pismires and put them in a 

 bag, hang them so that they may touch the body 

 of the tree; the pismires cannot get down for the 

 tar, so for want of food will devour the caterpil- 

 lars. 



Caterpillars. When they are upon coleworts 

 or cabbages, take some salt water and water them 

 with it, and it will kill them. 



Caterpillars. Our gardeners shake them off the 

 plants in a morning betimes; for whilst they are 

 touched with the cold of the night, they easily 

 drop down. 



Caterpillars of many swts, the Wolf, the Black 

 Fly, the Calendar Worm, &c. 



The most hurtful is the wolf and calendar 

 worm, that lurk in the heart of flower buds, shut- 

 ting them up that they cannot open, which they 

 sconsume; the trees that blow early, look as if 

 signed by lightening; those that blow late are not 

 so subject to this evil. 



Caterpillars. Take three ounces of wormood, 

 one ounce of assa foctida, steep and break them, 



