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Grafting Clay

Take strong adhesive loam or clay, and knead it till of the consistency of soft soap. Take also some horse droppings, and rub through a riddle of half-inch mesh. Mix the two ingredients surface; and the lawn should be rolled the evening previous, which will not only assist in bringing the worms nearer the surface, but will fill up ali the holes they have forsaken.

The following night they will again open the holes in which they lie, and thereby afford the water greater facility to reach them the next day without wasting much by its soak- with fresh cow-dung, all in equal parts, to ing into forsaken holes. Diluted ammoniacal a uniform consistency. When grafting, the THE EXTERMINATION OF VERMIN. operator should have at hand some finely-turn of the natural crop. After stuffing the riddled ashes, into which the hands should be interstices with straw, and covering the surdipped to prevent the clay from adhering, and face of the ice with the same material, place enable him to give the whole a neat finish. on it boxes, casks, baskets, etc., and fill them