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all over the trees, and fometimes the fruit will be rilled with 3 

 them. The belt method that I have found to deftroy theirr 

 is, to get a fharp-pointed wooden flake, or an iron crow, if 

 the ground be hard, and with it bore a hole clofe to the fide 

 of the wall, and as deep as the ground will permit. By 

 ftirring the earth, you will fet the ants in motion : then work: 

 your flake or crow round the fides of the hole, making them 

 as fmooth as you can ; the ants will come to the mouth of 

 the hole and tumble in, and, by the fhape of the hole and 1 

 fmoothnefs of its fides, will be prevented from climbing up 

 again. When yon fee a great many in the bottom of the 

 hole, pour in fome water from a watering-pot ; and thus you 

 may drown thoufands of them. It is to be obferved, that 

 there mull be feveral holes made, according to the length of 

 the waif, 



This is an eafy and Ample way to get rid of ants. Some 

 are of opinion that they do good by eating the aphides fronr 

 off the trees ; but I have always thought that they dp much 

 more hurt than good. 



You may like wife -deftroy many of them by mixing quick- 

 lime with foot, and laying it along their roads where you fee- 

 them thickeft ; but where you can come at their nefts, thebeft 

 Way is to put a piece of quick lime into it, and pour as much: 

 water over the lime as will flake it, the heat of which will: 

 deftroy them : when you have poured in the water, cover the 

 lime with a turf or a little earth, which will render- it more 

 effeclual, by confining the heat. You may flake the lime 

 with a- mixture of urine and foap-fuds ? which will render it 

 ftill more effectual. 



If a little of the powder of ftavesacre be laid on the ground: 

 round the ftem of a tree, it will prevent ants from afcendingiti 



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