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which were little matured few were seen, and in most 

 cases none. Some of the fully ripened pods, however, 

 were also free from maggots. 



On one other Pease-field where the Peas were still very 

 little matured, we could not find any maggots in the 

 pods. It may possibly happen that the insects, which 

 had been the origin of the many maggots just described, 

 had already closed their short life and were dead when 

 these later peas began to flower, and they thus escaped 

 this vermin. Lucky is he who so can sow his seed that 

 the insects, which use to cause this damage in the fields 

 and the country, come either too early or too late. 



In the evening we returned home to Gravesend. 



GRAVESEND. 

 [T. II. p. 5.] Mjolkens Ansning, &C. The Dairy. 



Here in Kent the farmers or husbandmen keep only a 

 few cows, so that they have not any more milk than they 

 require for their own households. When the milk is 

 newly milked, they sile* it in four-cornered boxes of lead. 

 The length of such a milk-box, mjolk-lada, is about 

 2 feet to 2 feet 6 inches. Sometimes they are of the 

 same length and breadth, the depth about 4 inches. 

 When this box is siled in the morning nearly full of milk, 

 it is left to stand so for twenty-four hours, or till the next 

 morning, when the cream is skimmed off, da graden 

 skumas af, but the remaining sour milk is used either 

 for the people, or, as mostly happens, it is given to the swine. 



In the same way, the milk that is siled one evening is 

 skimmed the next, so that in the summer they never 

 leave it to stand longer in the box than twenty-four hours, 



Sile, a milk strainer. Sile, v. to strain, as fresh milk from the cow, v. n. to 

 sile down, to fall to the bottom, or subside. North. & Lincoln ; Grose, Prov. 

 Gloss. [J. L.] 



