[337] Fée thinks that this may possibly be efficacious against the attacks of rats, as the author of the Geoponica, B. x., states.
[338] Virgil, Georg, i. 111, recommends the same plan, and it is still followed by agriculturists. It is not without its inconveniences, however.
[339] This is not consistent with truth, for no fresh ear will assume its place.
[340] De Re Rust. c. 6.
[341] De Re Rust. c. 34.
[342] “Ador.” See c. [10] of this Book.
[343] From Varro; De Re Rust. i. 23.
[344] A.U.C. 553.
[345] There is nothing wonderful in a few grains of corn germinating in the cleft of a tree.
[346] In B. v. c. 10.