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several years in consequence of a lawsuit, the lattei* did 

 much more good than the former. 



Season. Where improvements are carrying On Upon a large scale, 



and draw-kilns are kept at work throughout the year, the 

 choice of season becomes of secondary importance: in other 

 cases liming should no more go on in winter than building. 

 It may be continued from March to October, but summer 

 is the best season. It should be spread on a ley one full 

 year before ploughing, that it may have time to fix itself 

 firmly in the sward. If ploughed too soon it falls to the 

 bottom of the furrow, and will be the sooner lost, for it con- 

 tinually sinks. Three years before breaking up a ley, part 

 was limed with three hundred bushels an acie; the remain- 

 der was limed with an equal proportion only one year before 

 it was broken up. The former produced oats 10 for 1 of the 

 seed, the latter 6 for 1. 



Quantity. In common cases the quantity ought to be guided by a 



chemical analysis of the soil. The largest quantities have 

 been spread, and with piopriety, on bogs and peat moors, 

 and on mountains. The Bishop of Landaff speaks of a- 

 thousand bushels an acre on moors in Derbyshire applied 

 . with great success. Five or six hundred are not uncommon 

 there. Lord Chief Baron Foster, in Ireland, went as far as 

 to three hundred barrels, on a moory waste ; and found, 

 that the greater the quantity the greater was the improve- 

 ment. Dr. Anderson tried from one to seven hundred 

 bushels an acre, and found the good effect to increase regu- 

 larly with the quantity. In more common cases the quan- 

 tities vary in general practice from thirty-six to a hundred 

 and sixty bushels. 



Whr re appli- On peat bog3, peat moors, and mountains, the utility of 

 lime cannot be questioned. Experiments on every scale, 

 arid under a very great variety of circumstances, speak a 

 uniform language : the benefit of applying lime is great and 

 decided. On lining Kedgley moor, in Northumberland, 

 covered with ling, the ling was killed, and three tuns au 

 acre of white clover were mown without sowing any. Part 

 of Meriden heath, in Warwickshire, was fallowed for a 

 year, ten acres trebly folded with a thousand sheep, ten 



acres 



cable. 



