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 To drive Moles away. 



In places you would not dig nor break much, 

 the fuming their holes with brimstone, garlick, or 

 other unsavoury things, drives them away, and if 

 you put a dead mole into a common haunt, it will 

 make them absolutely forsake it. 



Moles to take when you plow. 



Take with you a large vessel full of water, and 

 when you see any new mole holes cast up, being 

 opened with the plough, pour therein pitchers or 

 large cans of water, and that will make them in 

 a little time come out, and thus you may destroy 

 them in plowed land or pasture; in common land 

 make trenches in spring time to catch them. \ 



Moles. Some say that in gendering time, if you 

 lead or draw a bitch mole in a string along the 

 ground, the buck will trace her, and so you may 

 catch them in a pot set in the ground. 



Moles. The best instrument to destroy them is 

 made thus: take a small board of about three in- 

 ches and a half broad, and five inches long; on the 

 one side thereof raise two small round hoops or 

 arches, and at each end, like unto the two ends 

 of a carrier's wagon, or a tilt boat, large enough 

 that a mole may pass through them: in the mid- 

 dle of the board make a hole so big that a goose 

 quill may pass through, then is that part finished; 

 then have in readiness a short stick about two in- 

 ches and a half long, about the bigness that the 

 end thereof may just enter the hole in the mid- 

 dle of the board; also you must cut a hazle or 

 other stick, about a yard, or a yard and half long, 

 that being stuck into the ground may spring up 

 like unto the spring they usually set for fowls; 

 then make a link of horse hair very strong that 



