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IV. Stonh-picking clover-lay is alfo ge- 

 nerally done by the acre :— the price tVN'opence 

 to threepence [an acre ; the (quantity of ilones 

 being in general fmall. 



V. The method of frightening rooks, in 

 pradice here, efpecially when they take to 

 patches of corn which are lodged before bar- 

 vefl, is fimply to {tick up a tall bough in the 

 part infefted : if a gun be fired near the place, 

 before the bough be fet up, this fimple expe- 

 dient feldom fails of being eifedtual. 



If rooks make an attack after feed-time, or 

 when they take, generally, to the crop before 

 harvefl, a boy is fet to fcare them ; they 

 being feldom attempted to be fhot at in Nor- 

 folk ; where a notion prevails, and is perhaps 

 well-founded, that rooks are eflentially ufeful 

 to the farmer, in picking up worms and 

 grubs i efpecially the grub of the cock- 

 chaffer, which, it is believed, is frequently in- 

 jurious to the meadows and marfnes of this 

 j:ountry, 



VI. But whether rooks Mre, or are not, 

 ^ipon the whole, hurtful to the farmer, there 



are 



