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these occasions, by employing a tender with a gun to 
shoot amongst them. 
Pigeons are also useful in picking up divers injurious 
.seeds, but will sometimes make free with a pea crop 
after sowing and before harvest; they may be kept off 
by a tender and a gun, and if too audacious may be 
fired at with hard pease to make them smart; and I 
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think I have seen a good effect in keeping off both this 
and the last mentioned sort, by hanging up in effigy 
one or two of their own species in the field where they 
■were committing depredations. 
The lark is also sometimes very injurious to late 
sown wheat, by tracing it down the peeping blade to 
the grain, and stocking it up with its long heels, and 
devouring it in this saccharine state ; to prevent which, 
they should be shot at by a good marksman. 
SECT. IV.--—MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS AND REMARKS. 
Mr. Carpenter recommends, that one-tenth of all 
arable land be sown with winter vetches; to this, there 
is an objection which operates strongly this year, 1807, 
in the price of the seed, which has been in Worcester- 
shire from 20s to 24s. per bushel ; two bushels per 
acre, being 48s., make a breach in the value of the crop; 
some opulent persons, ivho had seed of their own, have 
been tempted to sell it, and sow a less quantity. 
The sowing of rye for spring eating is liable to the 
same objection, when the seed is ”s. or 8s. per bushel, 
or more; the amount of seed and loss of keep, which a 
stubble might spontaneously produce, bearing a great 
proportion to the value of the rye crop for grazing. 
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