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harrowed in the direction of the furrows ; that the bulbvS 

 may be the more loosened from the sod, and entirely 

 exposed to the frosts and thaws. 



If the course here recommended is not perfect ; rt is 

 nevertheless the best I know to be in the power of com- 

 mon farmers. — Denshiring^ or paring and burnings is an 

 effectual mode to eradicate all pests in the sod. But 

 this is not likely to be resorted to, in the present state 

 of things. Trench ploughing is also a sure mode ; as I 

 can, from repeated experience, attest. 



Graziers and large dealers, may extirpate garlick by 

 great numbers of cattle, winter fed on their ground. 

 The late Mr. William Jones succeeded in this way, at 

 Garlick Hallm the neck. The poaching and tramping 

 the sod, as well as fertilizing the soil by the droppings 

 from, and the laying down of, cattle, afford the remedy. 

 But this mode is attainable by a few people only. 



Garlick grows in poor and exhausted soils generally ; 

 but, like all robbers, it does not spare the rich. It is 

 propagated by the seed and bulbs, or roots. When th$ 

 parent bulbs, or old roots, are destroyed, the seed, in 

 two or three years, will produce another race of pests ; 

 as if it were intended vindictively to punish the de- 

 stroyer of their predecessors. But as soon as this vile 

 progeny appears, they should at once be assailed ; and, 

 being tender and weak, they are the more easily over- 

 come, by a fall and early spring ploughing. A variable 

 winter of severe frosts, with intervals of thaws, and a 

 late spring, with frosty and chilly damp nights, and oc- 

 casionally w^arm days, are favourable to the destruction 

 of the bulbs, exposed to such vicissitudes. These ob- 

 servations are extended beyond my original intention. 



