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out of the Bufhes, Dunghills, or Heaps of Straw, to 
fet fire to them 5 and this Method would have been 
very fpeedy, convenient, and fuccefsful ; as it has 
been in other Places. But in the Summer, when 
they have march’d out of their Spring-Quarters, and 
have invaded the Corn-fields, &c. it is almofi: im- 
pofliblc to extirpate them, without thoroughly thrcfh- 
ing the whole Piece of Land that harbours them, 
with Sticks or Flails, and thus crulhing the Locufts 
with the Produce of the Land. 
Finally, when the Com is ripe, or nearly fo, we 
have found, to our great Lofs, that there is no other 
Method of getting rid of them, or even of diminifh- 
ing their Numbers, but to furround the Piece of 
Ground with a Multitude of People, who might 
fright them away with Bells, brafs Veffels, and all 
other Sorts of Noife. But even this Method will 
not fucceed, till the Sun is pretty high, fo as to dry 
the Corn from the Dew ; for otherwife they will 
either ftick to the Stalks, or lie hid under the Grafs. 
But when they happen to be driven to a wafte Piece 
of Ground, they are to be beat with Sticks or Briars; 
and if they gather together in Heaps, Straw or Litter 
may be thrown over them, and fet on fire. Now 
this Method ferves rather to lefien their Numbers, 
than totally deftroy them; for many of them lurk 
under the Grafs or thick Corn, and in the Filfures 
of the Ground from the Sun’s Heat : Wherefore it 
is requifite to repeat this Operation feveral times, in 
order to diminish their Numbers, and confequently 
the Damage done by them. It will likcwife be of 
Ufe> where a large Troop of them has pitch’d, to 
dig a long Trench, of an Ell in Width and Depth, 
and 
