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plied j On heavy ground, in this Hate, one hundred bar- 

 rels are about the quantity, but on lighter, from fixty 

 to eighty. When lime is laid on flubble ground, it is 

 reckoned to take efFecl fooner, and a lefler quantity is 

 ufed in proportion to each foil. This is not a bad 

 mode, provided the ground is left to grafs, but if for 

 immediate tillage, it feldom anfwers a good purpoie, 

 in the ufual mode of culture this country affords ; but 

 when a piece of ground lies in fuch a fituation, that it 

 is defirable to have it in grafs and in good heart (as all 

 ground ought to be), it may be expected, that lime 

 fpread on the Hubble, and ploughed lightly in before 

 winter, then nicely flirred again in fpring, and fowa 

 with oats and grafs-feed, will have fuccefs in both 

 points. As for thofe, who plough but once for fpring 

 crops, they will be generally difappointed by liming on 

 flubble. Another way of laying on lime is under dung, 

 for potatoes; this many perfons will fuppofe to be a 

 work of fupererogation, and fo it is in fome degree, 

 as it is twice manuring the fame ground for one object; 

 but of all the methods I have feen put in execution to 

 enable the ground (after the unfcientific practice of 

 this country) to bear a long courfe of exhaufling crops, 

 this is the fureflj for I have known nine crops of grain 

 in fucceffion taken from ground thus brought in, 

 namely, two of barley, two of wheat, and five of oats, 

 all good, and except for the lafl, when grafs-feed was 

 fown, not more than one ploughing was given for a 



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