8 | On Lime. 
Upon the whole, I think instead of troubling our 
farmers about distinguishing the different qualities of 
magnesian and calcarious lime, it will be better to 
advise them to use lime sparingly on poor land, and at — 
the same time to use every exertion to increase their 
dung and compost heaps, whereby their land will be 
prepared for the application of lime, not only with safe- 
ty, but great advantage. — . 
This note refers to the * in page second. 
* Since writing the above, I am informed that there is in 
Marlborough township, Chester county im this. state, a mild 
lime which answers well on land. But it is a notorious fact, 
that the great body of improvers, usé hot or caustic lime with - 
success; but clover ought always to be sown with the first 
crop. And though in some instances the grain crop may seem 
little benefited or even injured by the lime, the clover and 
succeeding crops will shew its effects. 
J. Lance. 
