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The heatingof the liquor will make it penetrate better into wood, 
and no infect will come near where it has been once rubbed over. 
If this liquor is put into the pafte ufed in binding of books, the cock- 
roaches or other infects will never touch them. It will likewifepre- 
ferve the hair and feathers of dried fpecimens of birds and beafts,and 
the bodies of curious butterflies, from being deftroyed by minute 
animalcules; and will be found to be an effectual remedy againfl 
bugs, and is one of the great fecrets of the bug-killers. Another 
is a folution of corrofive lublimate mercury, diffolved in fpirit of 
wine, and lowered with water: this leaves no ftain on furniture. 
As tobacco is univerfally known by the gardeners to deftroy 
infeCts by its deleterious quality, and as tobacco-fand is to 
be had upon very reafonable terms, it is recommended to 
feedfmen to mix it up with their fmaller feeds on exportation, as 
it may abforb their humidity, prevent their putrefaction, and de- 
ftroy the infeCts that are in them. But it muft be obferved, that 
it is not meant here, that it will keep them from the penetrating 
noxious fleams that arife from the fhip’s hold, particularly in warm 
climates ; for I am doubtful, whether even a thin coat of wax 
would be a fufficient guard in that dangerous fituation. And as 
to the larger feeds, the putting fome fine cut-tobacco in fmall 
quantities loofe among them, feems to carry fome probability of 
being at leaf! an experiment worth trying, to prevent their being 
deftroyed by infeCts. 
In ftiort,. the demand for our kitchen-garden -feeds would be 
very great, both in the Eaft and Weft-Indies, if we could hit* 
on a proper method of fending them into thofe warm climates in a 
vegetating ftate; fo that it is well worth our attention, as an 
article of commerce, to try every experiment that may lead to fo 
ufeful a difcovery. 
I hope, then, thefe hints may incite curious gentlemen, as well 
as intelligent feedfmen and gardeners, to begin a courfe of thefe 
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