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thafts or staves, and sell them by the thousand ov hundred. The 
tree is sold to the brush makers, for brush heads, painters’ brushes, 
brush handles, bannisters, spindles, distaffs, &c. or short pieces to 
clog-makers, for shoe-heel cutters, &c. The poles are sold by the 
score, or gross, according to the articles into which they are convert¬ 
ed. The refuse goes to the bakers, or for family use. The Hogging 
ends unconverted are brought home and burnt for coal, being the 
quickest and best burning fuel possible ; never flying or sparkling at 
all. I used to raise a good deal from seed. I pared and burnt a 
piece of the worst land, sowed it with turnips, fed it off, and harrowed 
it well. I harrow the seed well in, any time before winter; which 
I prefer, as the plants will grow sooner and make greater progress bv 
coming out of the ground earlier, than if this business were delayed 
till spring. They will grow in great abundance, broad-cast like corn, 
and be a nursery for years; leaving sufficient at last fora plantation. 
The seed may be easily taken from bearing trees, by cutting the 
branches before it is quite ripe, in August, and may be thrashed out 
with a flail as corn ; as soon as the branches dry a little, two strikes 
or bushels go to an acre.— JYevelle’s Letter to Sir G. Sutton . 
Preserving Bees in Winter.— Mr. Ethridge of Montrose, 
Pew, who keeps a considerable quantity of Bees, buried several of 
his hives in the ground, during the falls of last year. They were 
placed a sufficient depth to be 
out of the reach of frost, and in 
such a manner that the air could 
by no means penetrate, being first 
covered with straw, to about the 
thickness of ten inches, before 
being covered with mould as fig, 
L, They were taken up in April, 
and the bees were found to be in 
good health. They had made use of no honey, as there appeared to 
be as much honey in the spring as when the hives were buried in 
the autumn. . M. Saul. 
Ling destroyed by Lime. —Lime is an utter enemy to ling or 
bent, so much so, to the former especially, that wherever even lime¬ 
stone unburnt is thrown down upon ling, in no great length of time 
the chippings of the stone, and the substance wasted off from them 
by rain, entirely destroy the ling and produce sweet herbage. In 
the Western Moorlands, where land overrun with ling or bent is 
intended to be improved, it is the practice to lay on three or four 
chaldrons of lime per acre, which in one year entirely changes the 
natural produce to that of a fine turf full of white clover. 
