The Apple
Has a great enemy in a minute insect called the Cochineal, owing more, perhaps, to its being nearly of the same colour, than from any resemblance to the Spanish insect of that name. A gentleman who had eight trees that had for several years borne a delicious apple, had the mortification to find the whole of his trees at once infested by those insects in excessive number; after which they left off bearing, and after failing in many experiments to relieve them, he came unwillingly to the resolution of cutting down the trees. These insects are of a dark red, approaching to a purple, and combine in such numbers on the roots as well as branches, as to shew in protuberated clusters, exhibiting a downy whiteness on the surface. A gardener of the colony, who has attended a good deal to this matter, affirms that a weed called the Churnwort presents a perfect remedy to the disaster; with this weed, the roots, cleared of the earth, and the branches also, he advises to be thoroughly well rubbed.
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| Beef. | Pork. | Flour. | Plumbs. | Pease. | Suet. | |
| Ps. | Ps. | lbs. | lbs. | quarts | lbs. | |
| Sunday | 1 | 0 | 2½ | ½ | 0 | 0½ |
| Monday | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tuesday | 0 | 0 | 5 | ½ | 0 | 0½ |
| Wednesday | 1 | 0 | 2½ | ½ | 0 | 0½ |
| Thursday | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Friday | 1 | 0 | 2½ | ½ | 0 | 0½ |
| Saturday | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 | 12½ | 2 | 3 | 2 | |
| Say 26 Weeks | 78 | 78 | 325 | 52 | 78 | 52 |
| £ | s. | d. | |
| 78 Pieces of Beef, at £8 per 42 pieces, is | 14 | 16 | 0 |
| 78 do. do. Pork, at £9 per 53 do. | 13 | 10 | 0 |
| 325 lbs. Flour, at | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 52 lbs. Plumbs, at | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 78 quarts Pease, at | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 52 lbs. Suet, at | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 38 | 6 | 0 | |
| 2½ Tons water butts at 60s. | 7 | 10 | 0 |
| 5)45 | 16 | 0 | |
| 9 | 3 | 2 | |
| Say a ship of 500 tons to carry 200 men | 200 | ||
| £1831 | 13 | 4 | |
| Say 500 tons freight at £6 out | 3000 | 0 | 0 |
| £4831 | 13 | 4 |
200 men at £4831 13s. 4d. is equal to £24 3s. 2d. per man.