The Sun.
London, England, 1804-06-22 00:00:00

the importation of Wheat and 001.
,rfom this
circumstance, your Committee have drawn the con-
clusion, that' that immediate relief will not be af-
forded to the Growers of Barley, which it is cop_
ceived the Growers' of Wheat will receive, by the
alterations in the importation Table.

The ohjed of your Cominittee, in fixing the
price at which the Ports shall be
,open for the ge-
neral importation of Corn so much higher than the
price at which it is permitted to' be (xport6l, is, to
encourage the surplus of one Diwiet to be sent for
the supply of another in want of it, that the import
into one part of the Kingdom, and the export from
another at the same time, may thereby be checked,
and the prices throughout the Kingdom be made
more equal.

With this view., your Committee recommend the
adoption of measures calculated "to promote the in.
terests4 the Grower, conceiving that a due en.
couragetnent to. Agriculture' is the best and most
effectual mode_of ensuring to the consttmer an ade-
quate and reguir ,supply, at a, reasonable rate, as
well as of obviating" those frequent fiktuations in
price,'so injurious -both to the.Growerand the Pub.
lic ; and -ilso—Tn tutor: _to secure to this Country,'
as far as po4ie„ the advantages of. such enormous
sums, as your
,Committee find, have e'xceeded thirty!
millions in 'the
,last thirteen years, which Sums, eni
ployed in the; purchase of Corn abroad, cannot fail to
have operated as a Bounty upon the Agriculture f f
Foreign Ciibritties; to the detriment of our own
whereas it appears by the Corn Returns, that in the
course of -yeais when the Regulations' were most
favourable to the Grower's, and when tin.: mast check.'
was put upon the Trade, the export of Corn 'from:
this Xingcl9m, for more than sixty years in sums-,
sion, produced annually, 53x or seven: hundred thou.:
sand pounds,: leaving. besides, at.a regular and mo.
derate price, an ample
_sufficiency for the home
consumption.

CAUTION TO FARMERS.

[FRONT AN LDINzur.G.H rArER.]

CONSIDERABLE depreciations.are at present ring
on
among' the growing crops, by inewis•of a small
snail, either broWn or white. The crops of flax,
ciat, or barley, seem to vanish gradually, from a
cause that does not appear in day.light.. The earth
feels as if it. were heaved, or excavated ; and a num-
ber of stnall holes may be observed, by which the
little pluntle,ters have easy access to their subietra.,
neous retreats. They issue, our from' thence abut
ten O'clock in the evenings, and continue to eione
out till towards midnight,' ravaging the crops.
morning appear. In tins manner they escape notice,
• itnd are safe ftnm.crows, poultry, &c. Which in day.
light might probablypisk them up. Putatue sterns
are eaten acr:,s,.,•and close by the grotind,;.
beati stalks Meet a similar fate ; fitx,. oats, where,
and barley, when seriousli, attacked, go entirely
•
away.
The little creatures, it not observed, may-
propagate in the soil, and'destroy successiye,crops
,nfit : this has frequently occurred in garder9`; . it.
has also happened in the "where potit!oes,
wheat; and barley, all in succession, (live been to.
tally.distroyed on the same field. Turnips are also
sometimes eaten up by the small snail, whetithe
is" hldtnedlde the mischief; and the damage -corn.
muted, in-this way has; in particular seasons, been
very great. • •

, . Th:!: remedy is easy, and may be effeeinally`ap
• plied :—Let the ground where the depreda;ions are
ori, be rolled, by night, for •three auccessive
tirne,, with a heavy 'roller. The first •operation
smooths the. surface, and destroys some snails the
second renders the earth very firm, and a consider-
, able execution takes place: the third rolling entirely
Outs up the retreats of the snail, and for the.most
'part eradicates them 'altogether. After this new
crops' may -be safely .sowa; and grass seeds, or tar_,,
'nip seed,_ may be scattered over the bare surface,-
before the last rolling. Mr. Henry Nagg,'in"Eng..
land, secured his,turnip.fields by this-simple opera-
tion., when his neighbours lost all. Mr. Stewart,
of Hillhead, Scotland, effedually cured- a beautiful
field, last season, that would otherwise have been
wholly. destroyed, for 'that,-and perhaps also fur sue.
ceeding crops. '•
There is a dun worm, from one inch to two inche?.
long, of the thickness of a qnill, which appears to''
give some. assistance to the snail, in her depreda-
tions at present. •It is so tough, that rolling has
no chance to destroy is, unless to a very imperfed
extent. Probably soot, equally sown in a calm
evening; by the hand, may have as- good effeds
with.this creature as it has with the wire-worto; '
this application may answer in small spots, or gar..
dens,. where rolling isinctiovenient ; it may also be.
proper to try quicklime, in the same manlier, if'
soot cannot be obtained, :sowing it when. there is
some dew, or gentle moisture, 'that it may operate
immediately on the bodies of the, inseds.-. The-
mole probably devours a variety of insretS, which
retreat bebW the surface of the ground ; ducks grub ,
them' up in gardens, when they appear in day-liglit ;.
crows and poultry ear up the worms wherever they .
canital Orin—yet, in particular seasons, the ddmage
Which they commit is very/ great.

About ten days since 6 very singular animal,
called a Wild D ,g, was caught. in a steel trap, and.
afterwards killed, in the neighbourhood of Bal.
comb, in Sussex, where he had of, late proved.ix-
tretnely•itjurious to the flocks, by killing a great
number of lambs, and tcating the flesh from Ate-
bones -of others, which he left in a very tortured
state alive. He was in-size larger than a fox, pug-
headed,- and clothed with -long Ycci hair, essentially
like that of a. badger. He had been frequently
heard to give tongue whilst hunting rabbits, and
was extremely shy of being seen. This animal,
from the account we have received of him, .appears
to have beed a nondescript, and might have added
something new to the class of quadrupeds, had he
fallen into the hands of a naturalist. -

A very singular instance of aireainn has recently
taken place at the lodge entering Ickworth park,
near Bury, where a cat has suckled and brought up
four tquirrels, for which she evinced the greatest
care and tenderness.