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our railroads ruu into all of our lime regions. At our bidding 

 lime in bulk could be delivered at our depots at such prices, 

 we hope to show, that farmers can afford to buy. First, lime 

 is all the good tobacco-grower needs to raise good wheat. 

 His ground is prepared, and in good seasons his crop will 

 be harvested by the 20th of August. Let him sow his 

 wheat the next day, and give his field a good dressing with 

 lime, and he is all right. Secondly, let the farmers who 

 depend upon the process of raising corn and potatoes to 

 rejuvenate their soil, as soon as the season will permit in the 

 following spring, plough and sow these fields with corn. Let 

 the corn grow till the first of July, then plough it well under. 

 Let it lie, and the elements act on the soil till the middle of 

 August. Then let the field be well pulverized and prepared 

 for the seed. The twentieth day of August, let this class of 

 farmers, and also the tobacco-growers, both soak their seed 

 in brine, and roll it in plaster, or plaster and ashes ; then sow 

 and harrow it in well. Then sow a liberal quantity of good 

 grass-seed, and roll it in. Then give the soil a good dressing 

 of lime, and in nine years out of ten your golden harvest is 

 sure, every stalk standing erect, every head laden with the 

 choicest seed-wheat. Let those who raise spring wheat not 

 forofet the lime and ashes and salt. Now, let no farmer 

 charge all the cost of that time to his field of wheat, rich as it 

 may be, and able to pay. Man craves for the constitution of 

 his body what the animal craves. He has bones to grow and 

 sustain, in common with them. Now wheat, of all the cereals, 

 is charged most heavily with elements which the animal 

 elaborates into phosphate of lime for the growth and suste- 

 nance of the bone. Many persons wilt and become sickly on 

 the diet of fine flour, who become " healthy on graham and 

 cracked wheat. Such are ready to ascribe all this benefit to 

 the virtues stored in the hull ; whereas, they should take into 

 the account the fact that much of the flour is made from 

 blighted wheat, grown on soil much exhausted of lime, while 

 for graham and cracked wheat, the most plump and robust 

 wheat in the market is selected. Wheat grown on soils not 

 yet exhausted of their lime quality, just such wheat as we 

 propose the farmers of New England shall raise, full of nutri- 

 ment and phosphates and vitality ; wheat that will not only 



