C 1-73 3 



when fown in November or December, becaufe 

 more of the feed mifcarrics in that unfavourable 

 feafon. 



I am, Gentlemen, 



j Your's, &c. 



X. Y. Z. 



Article XXVIIL 

 On the Nature and Effects of Lime as a Manure. 



[From a Gentleman in Devonfliire.] 

 Gentlemen, 



AS you are about to oblige the publick with a 

 fecond volume of your valuable papers on 

 Agriculture, I hope you will not deem it imper- 

 tinent in me to throw a few hints before you on 

 the nature and effects of lime as a manure for 

 land : they are the united effects of my own ex- 

 periments and obfervations on the fubject; and the 

 opportunities I have had for forming my opinion 

 have been many and various. 



The county of Devon has been reproachc 

 fome writers as being a century behind mod co 

 tics in England in Agricultural improvements. 



That 



