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Forty eight Honrs in an ordinary digeftive heat, I had 
two Beds left me to Sow, in the midft of tbofe the Peo- 
ple fow'd, and the quantity of Seed that they generally 
allotted to the fame quantity of Ground ; when I iow'd, 
I mix'd Afhes with the Seed, having decanted the Liquor, 
that the Seed might fow the evenner • the effed was, 
that my Plants came up much fooner, grew fwifter, and 
I had five Plants for one more than any of the other Beds 
bore ; I left the Country fliortly after , and fo had no 
certainty of the final Refuk There be various Accidents 
and Diftempers, whereunto Tobacco is liable, as the 
Worm, the Flie, Firing to Turn, as they call them, 
French-men, and the like. I propofed feveral ways to 
kill the Worm and Flie, as by Sulphur and the like; 
but had no opportunity to experiment it : I lhall fet 
down that I had moft hopes of, which perhaps may give 
a hint to others to try or improve : Tobacco-feed is very 
fmall 9 and by confequence fo is the young Plant atfirft, 
that if gleamy Weather happen at that time, it breeds a 
(mail Flie, which confumesthe Plume ©f the Plant ; now 
it being early in the Year when they Sow the Seed, viz* 
about the 14th of January, they cover the Ground, to 
fecure, as well as t{iey can, their tender Plants, from the 
nipping Frofts, that may happen in the Nights ; they co- 
ver them only with a few Oak-leaves, or the like ; for 
Straw they find apt to harbour and breed this Flie : I 
therefore would advife them to fmoak Straw with Brim- 
ftone, once in two or three Nights, and fb they might 
cover them fecurely, with that which would prefer ve 
them infinitely beyond the Covering with Oak-boughs; 
indeed, I would advife them to keep peculiarly fo much 
of their Indian Corn-blades, which they gather forrheir 
Fodder, for this very purpofe, being, as I conceive, much 
the beft, there being no Chaff to foul their Beds, and pre- 
judice them when they (hould weed them. What they 
call Firing is this : When Plants are of fmall Subftance, 
as 
