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take a share in the crime, hut they are never so 
numerous. 
The best method I have yet discovered to pre- 
vent the evil is to dust the bushes well over with 
quick lime, three or four times in the course of the 
winter and spring months, always taking- advan- 
tage of a pretty still day to perform the opera- 
tion, when the trees are quite wet after rain, 
or at the time when light rain is falling, that it 
might stick to the buds ; or add one peck of lime 
to twenty -four gallons of water with two gallons 
of gas tai-, stir all up together, apply it with a 
watering pan, furnished with a coarse rose to 
admit of the lime going through. It would be 
well to have the whole siled through a sieve 
first, that it may pass more 'readily through the 
rose. Or to feed the Sparrows regularly with any 
thing they would eat, and would otherwise be 
wasted, would be a good practice. 
In quarters or general plantations of Berry 
Trees, a few stuffed Hawks might be set or fixed 
up, removing them occasionally, that they may 
not appear so common for the Sparrow not to fear 
them. 
CURRANT BUSH. 
The great and chief enemy to the Red and 
White Currant bush is a species of the Aphides. 
