304 Note, on Liming Land. 
ent some years ago, as particularly noticed in the London 
Philosophical Transactions, and in the writings of Mr. Henry, 
Dr. Darwin and others. 
We may remark that while the learned theorists in England 
and elsewhere, were exulting over the grand discovery,where- 
by the farmer might proceed with certainty in his choice of the 
lime most proper for manure, as if none but the mild or calca- 
rious kind, would henceforth be used for that purpose. In the 
mean time, we find the great mass of practical farmers, whose 
practice is generally the result of long experience and obser- 
vation, who read very little, many of whom seldom or never 
see a newspaper, far less the London Philosophical Trans- 
actions; who never heard of Mr. Henry nor Darwin’s Phy- 
tologia ; who are entirely ignorant of the grand discovery of 
the calcarious and magnesian limes, still giving the prefer- 
ance tothe hot or magnesian lime, and paying a higher price 
for it, even where the mild kind is equally within their reach, 
notwithstanding they know as well as Mr. Tennent, that the 
spots where the heaps of it had lain will remain barren for 
at least two years to come; they being at the same time 
sensible that with a judicious rotation it will produce them 
improved crops for a number of years, whereas the beneficial 
effects of the mild lime will be all gone in two years. 
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