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Beetles and other insects, which I need not say, 
had they been left undestroyed, would have been 
most injurious ; this, in some degree, the Fanner 
appears to perceive, and lets his visiters regale 
themselves Avithout interruption, hut here ends his 
kindness towards them, and no sooner does he 
commence cropping his grounds, than he declaies 
vengeance against them, forgetting the favouis 
he has received from them, and apparently un- 
conscious of their usefulness hereafter. Would 
the Farmer take the trouble to notice them in their 
general habits I am persuaded he would be more 
cautious in destroying them so indiscriminately, as 
he would find that nine times out of ten, excepting 
in seed-time and harvest, they would be rendering 
him essential service in gathering the various kinds 
of vermin so destructive to his produce. It per- 
liaps will be remembered that in the year, I believe 
1818, the crops of turnips generally throughout 
the kingdom were completely swept of by the 
larvse or Grub of the IVIoth, (Noctuu^ so that it 
was rare for a good turnip to be found, or even 
one of any kind. In a journey which I had to 
York, in the latter end of autumn, in the above 
year, my attention was much attiacted by incal- 
culable numbers of Crows assembled in various 
fields that had been cropped with Turnips, but to 
the disappointment of the occupiers those Grubs 
liad spared them the trouble of reaping. I was, 
however, readily convinced the Crows was in 
pursuit of those depredators for the obtaining of 
