Queries propofcd hy the Agricultural Society. ix 



or is it ferviccable to other grafTes, and to wheat and Indian 

 corn ? Is it as good as dung ? Can it be in any cafe fubftituted 

 for dung ? Is lime veiy beneficial as a manure ? In what quan- 

 tity, and on what foils, and for what plants is lime .proper ? Is 

 quicklime as good as mild lime ? Is not lime-ftone when fimply 

 powdered as beneficial as when it is calcined ! For what plants 

 is allies particularly ferviccable ? Is leached aflies lefs valuable 

 as a manure than unleached ? In what proportion? What is 

 the bell method of making and collefting manure in a farmer's 

 yard ? 



2. Soils. Is the foil on which your experiments are made 

 fandy ? or clayey ? or is it loamy ? Is it overfpread with ftones, 

 or interfperfed with rocks ? What is the particular compofition 

 of it ? Is there not a peculiar foil, belt adapted by nature to 

 each particular plant ? How far can art proceed in mending 

 nature's work by improving foils ? What kinds of grain or 

 grafs arc found by cApericuce kj thiive bcfl in any particular 

 foil ? What fubftances do you find in foils, unfriendly or hurtful 

 to vegetable life ? How can thefe be correded, overcame or 

 removed ? 



3. Tillage. - To what depth ought land to be ploughed ? 

 Should the black mould only be turned up, or ought the yellow- 

 foil below to be expofedalfo? By what management in detail, 

 are weeds and graffes bell deftroyed in your fallow land ? How 

 is your land bell made mellow for the reception of feed i 



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