“ Take the bark of dogs cole, powder it, and mix it with wheat flour, or barley meal, or rye flour, and with milk and wine make a paste, put some of these pellets into their holes, and they will eat it, and it kills them.
4th. Take marking stone and wild cucumber juice, and pour it into their holes. Some set traps at the mouth of their holes.
5th. In places you would not dig nor break much, the fuming their holes with bristone, garlick, or other unsavoury things, drives them away, and if you put a dead mole into a common haunt, it will make them absolutely forsake it. ”

“ Black hellebore and the seed of wild cucumber mixed with such food as they eat, kills them.—Or mix powdered hellebore with wheat or barley-meal only, make into a stiff paste with honey, and laid where they come, they eat it, it is present death; but great care must be taken, lest any thing they eat should be poisoned. ”

“ Birds are no annoyance to the farmer, or gardens, for they destroy more caterpillars, slugs, snails and other vermin, that do ten times more mischief than they do.
TO CATCH FISH.
Take oculus indiæ, and some wheat flour, and with sweet wine, milk or mead, make a stiff paste, then make pellets, and throw them where fish are, and you may take them with your hands.—Or take assafœtida, flour, milk, and honey, make it into a paste, and bait your hook with it. ”

“ Buy what quantity you think fit of the strongest bird-lime you can procure, and was hit as long in clear spring water till you find it very pliable, and the hardness thereof removed, then beat out the water extraordinary well, till you cannot perceive a drop to appear, then dry it well ”

“ PISMIRES, EARWIGS, AND OTHER VERMIN THAT HURT GARDENS.
In gardens are July-flowers, which are subject to harm, both by rain and the sun, and much watering, and from earwigs and pismires. The rain spots them; the sun withers them by drying the ground too much: strong water spoils them, especially at the last of their blowing; pismires gnaw the flowers, and make holes in the leaves; earwigs devour the flowers, at least the leaves, that they fall out of the shell; to preserve them, let the sun be upon them but one hour in the day, and they will last long. ”

“ But to return, there is a pretty way of taking birds with lime-twigs, by placing them near a stale or two made of living bats, placing them aloft that they may be visible to the birds thereabouts, who will no sooner be perceived, but every bird will come and gaze, wondering at the strangeness of the sight, and having no other convenient lighting place, but where the line twigs are you may take what number you list of them. ”

“ Some smear their tree branches with juice of garlick.
to catch birds.
Get such seed as fowls love, mix it with grated onion, of juice of onion, and it makes them drunk.
to take wild geese.
Take a tame duck or goose, with a string by the leg, where wild geese or ducks come, and strew in that place such seed or grain soaked in lees of wine; where also white hellebore is boiled, you may take forty at a time; it will quickly make them drunk: let now the tied goose or duck come to the seed. ”

“ Take with you a large vessel full of water, and when you see any new mole holes cast up, being opened with the plough, pour therein pitchers or large cans of water, and that will make them in a little time come out, and thus, you may destroy them in ploughed land or pasture; in common land make trenches in spring time to catch them.
2d'. Some say that in gendering time, if you lead or draw a bitch mole in a string along the ground, the buck will trace her, and so you may catch them in a pot set in the ground. ”

“ But the owl is a far better stale than the bat, being bigger and more easily to be perceived, besides he is never seen abroad but he is followed and persecuted by all the birds that are near.
If you have not a living bat or owl, their skins will serve as well, stuffed, and will last you twenty years; there are some who have used an owl cut in wood, and naturally painted, with wonderful success.
secret to hinder pigeons from quitting a pigeon house. ”

“ Having learnt first how to use this call, you shall sit and call the birds unto you, and as any of them light on your bush, step not out unto them till you see them sufficiently entangle; neither is it requisite to run for every single bird, but let them alone till more come, for the fluttering is as good as a stale to entice them more. ”

“ Earwigs are very numerous, and injurious to fruit, and the way to destroy them is, by placing hoofs, horns, crabs or lobsters claws on branches of trees, into which they will resort; early in the morning take them gently off and shake them into a tub of water, or on the ground, and tread on them. ”

“ Take a long pole or rod that is light and straight, on the small end fasten a running loop of twisted horse-hair and silk, or made of wire of a large compass, which gently draw on him, and when it is five or six inches over his gills, hoist him up; if it is a small pike, draw it not so far on, make no noise in walking or speaking; if he lies so that you can't conveniently noose him, touch his tail with the rod, and he will turn as you please ”

“ As near as you can to any of these haunts, plant your lime bush, and plant yourself also at a convenient distance undiscovered, imitating with your mouth several notes of birds, which you must learn by frequent practice, walking the fields for that purpose very often, observing the variety of several birds sounds, especially such as they call one another by. ”

“ Bugs are not only become troublesome at London, but are got into some Countries; and whereas, people think they are bred of hogs, hair, wood, wool, cloth, and fur, these things breed only lice, moths, and worms; but bugs proceed from old feather beds, whereon has long laid sick and sweaty prople, which produces putrified smells and vapours; so does close press beds that have not the advantage of the pure air; as also close rooms, where the air wants free egress and regress, from these catises bugs proceed ”

“ Muscle shells burnt with storax, and beat to powder, strew the garden where they are, and they will all come out of their holes—then kill them.
4th In winter dig the hills, and take out the core, that it may be lower than the surface of the earth, that when you lay your turf down, it may lie lower than the other ground; it prevents ants returning, and the rain and frost coming, kills the rest. ”

“ If you lime straws, it must be done likewise when the lime is very hot, doing a great qnantity together, as many as you can well grasp in your hand, tossing and working them before the fire till they are all besmeared, every straw having its due proportion of lime ”

“ Badgers are pernicious creatures, and destroy young lambs, pigs, and poultry. Some make a pitfall about five feet deep, and four long, make it narrow at the top and bottom, and wider in the middle; then cover it with some small sticks and leaves so that he may fall in when he comes on it ”

“ Caterpillars destroy the leaves of trees, and devour cabbages and other tillage, and are generally the effects of great droughts. To prevent their numerous increase on trees, gather them off in winter, taking the prickets away that cleave to the branches, and burn them. ”

“ Observe where birds roost in great numbers, as they generally do in hedges, or trees, then go in a dark night, one with a pole, and beat the contrary side, and two or three be with you, carrying long boughs ”

“ To kill them, lay near their haunts an eel slit on the back, with some few corns of rats-bane put in the slit, then sew it up again; place the eel from the navel upwards out of the water, and he will eat it so far, but seldom farther, and it certainly kills him. ”

“ Be sure you do not daub your twigs with too much lime, for that will give distaste to the birds, yet let none want its proportion, or have any part left bare which onght to be touched; for as too much will deter them from coining, so too little will not hold them when they are there. ”

“ TO KILL FLEAS.
1st. Take lavender and wormwood, and boil them in vinegar well, and sprinkle your blankets with it; or savoury laid in your ehambers kills them.
2d. Take unslacked lime and strew in your chambers: penny royal wrapt up in a eloth and laid in your bed, drives fleas away; lay fresh onee a week.
3d. Mustard seed boiled in water, and the room sprinkled with it. Arsmart (the hot sort) strewed in a chamber kills all the fleas.
4th. Soap lees and onions boiled together and sprinkled in the room, kills both them and bugs. ”