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On Garlick. By Paul Busti* 

 Read January 9th, 1810. 



Blockleif s Retreat \st January 1810. 



Sir, 



Wishing to make it appear, that the importance of 

 communicating the results of practical experiences, is 

 the most useful manner of disseminating among the 

 farmers, the knowledge of the precious art of agriculture. 

 I venture to submit the observations I made on the best 

 mode of extirpating the nauseous plant, that poisons so 

 many of the fields in our neighbourhood : 



The Garlick. 



\\^en in 1806, I bought Parkinson's estate, and 

 found the hills beyond the creek so much infested with 

 that pestiferous vegetable, that unable to convert into 

 palatable bread the wheat and rye which the tenant then 

 resident on the place divided with me, I used the whole 

 of my share for feeding the cattle. The next year I 

 resolved to try whether I could destroy it. I met with 

 no certain advice by consulting my neighbours, as their 

 opinions were quite in opposition together. On two hills 

 where in 1806 grain was raised, and clover sown, I 

 pursued a different method. On one I caused a quan- 

 tity of plaister to be spread, thinking that the quick 

 vegetation of the red clover, would suffocate and stifle 

 the garlick. The other hill was early in the spring 

 ploughed and prepared for Indian corn. 



