MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, kc. 2S3 



Traps are alfo made by ftringing garden beans on a piece of 

 fine pack-thread, as you would firing beads, then driving in 

 two fmall ftakes at the breadth of a brick from each other, 

 and fetting up a brick, or ftone, or a board with a weight on 

 it, inclining to an angle of about forty-five degrees ; then tie 

 the firing, with the beans on it, round the brick and ftakes, 

 to fupport the brick in its inclining pofition, taking care to 

 place all the beans on the under fide of the brick. The mice 

 in eating the Beans will alfo cut the packthread, and fo dif- 

 engage the brick, or ftone, which falling on them kills them. 



There is nothing new in the foregoing method ; but, as 

 field-mice will feldom enter a clofe trap, I thought proper to 

 mention it. 



As mice are frequently carried into gardens with flraw., or 

 litter, and are there extremely hurtful, deftroying Beans and 

 Peafe in Spring, as alfo Lettuces, Melons, and Cucumbers in 

 frames, it is necefTary to take fome pains to deftroy them, 



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