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MOLES. 

 The Royal Agricultural Society affirms that in one year and 

 every year sixty thousand bushels of seed wheat, worth X3O5OOO, 

 are destroyed by wire loorms ! This prevents 720 thousand 

 bushels from bsing grown, worth £300,000. If our farmers and 

 others instead of killing moles, partridges and pheasants, would 

 protect them^ 720,000 bushels more wheat would go every year 

 into the English markets. But the creature designed by a kind 

 Providence to perform the chief part of this immense good is the 

 mole I Some years since I had two fields one of which was full 

 of wire worms, the other perhaps a third full. My crops failed 

 on these fields for the first two or three years but afterwards 

 improved rapidly, for I bought all the live moles I could find at 

 three shillings a dozen and then two shillings a dozen, and turned 

 them into these fields. I had eight quarters of barley per acre 

 and seven of wheat where the moles were at work all summer 

 making the ground like a honey comb. Next year the wire 

 worms being all cleared out my innocent little workmen who 

 had performed for me a service beyond the powers of all the men 

 in my parish, emigrated to my neighbor's lands to perform the 

 same service, but of course they met death wherever they moved 

 so that my*lit;;le colony was wholly destroyed. Now I will 

 receive all the moles that the farmers will give me and turn them 

 into my glebe. 



WASH FOR TREES. 



Should be put on the latter part of March or early in April. 

 I used it last year on some large elms that had in previous years 

 been troubled with caterpillars, and not one appeared during 

 the last summer. Before putting on the wash I scraped off the 

 rough bark with a drawing knife im7nediately after a ra'hi, about 

 eight feet to the ground. I have found it an excellent wash for 

 every description of fruit trees. 



Take twenty pounds of potash, half a bushel of air slaked 

 lime, half a bushel of wood ashes, sifted, and half a bushel of 

 fresh cow dung. Put these ingredients into a tight barrel, and 

 make into a wash of suitable consistency for putting on with a 

 white- wash brush. 



Cornelius Baker, Esq., has preserved his elms entirely from 

 caterpillars by using this wash. 



Mr. Pell observed that the Chinese did use such teas as 

 foreigners demanded. The coloring of some with deleterious 

 Golors — Prussian blue for instance — was that bloom admired by 

 foreigners. That the most precious teas sent out of China found 



