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Extirpation of JVild Garlick, By Richard Peters, 

 Read December 11th, 1809. 



Belmont, November '29th, 1809, 



Sir, 



As we have no communication on the subject of de» 

 stroying Garlick, I have copied one, miade to our agri- 

 cultural society of Blockley and Merion, by my very 

 attentive and respectable neighbour, Algernon Roberts, 

 It proves the efficiency of repetitions of plaister of 

 Paris, in addition to the object inducing its being made. 



" In the spring of 1802, I planted a field of about 15 

 acres with Indian corn ; in the succeeding fall I limed 

 it, with 40 bushels per acre. The following spring 

 (1803) I planted it again with Indian corn. It produced 

 a very poor crop ; which I attributed more to a want 

 of proper cultivation, than any other cause. — The sue* 

 ceeding sprii g ( 1 804) I sowed the field with oats. After 

 getting off the oats, 1 ploughed down the stubble, har- 

 rowed well, and sowed the ground with clover seed- 

 The season being very dry, the seed did not take to 

 answer my expectations. I next spring (1805) sowed 

 the field with oats ; and after harrowing in the oats, I 

 sowed two bushels of clover seed, and then rolled the 

 ground. — The seed took exceeding well ; and that fall 

 produced a good crop of pasture. In the spring of 1806, 

 I sowed the field, with 29 bushels of plaister, and it pro- 

 duced pasture fully to my expectation. In the spring 

 of 1807, I sowed 22 bushels of plaister, and the pasture 



