40 O F M A N U R E S. Part I. 



The moft natural land for lime, fays Mr. Worlidge, is the light 

 and fandy; the next, mixt and gravelly: wet and cold gravel is not 

 good, and cold clay is the worft of all. 



A mixture of lime, earth, and dung, together, adds he, is a very 

 excellent compoft for land. 



Mr. Evelyn advifes, for- land that wants heat, to mix lime with 

 turf ^nAfivarth, laying them alternatively, turf on lime, and lime 

 on turf, in heaps, for fix months, by which means it will become 

 fo mellow, and rich in nitrous falts, as to difiolve and run like aflies, 

 and carry a much more cherifhing vigour, than if ufed alone in a 

 greater quantity, and without danger of burning out and exhaufling 

 the vegetative virtue which it fliould preferve. 



Lime, a little flack'd, continues he, is excellent for cold wet 

 grounds and fliff clays, but it over-burns drier Ibils. It is the very 

 deftroyer of mofs and ruilies, as quick-lime is of furzes, being firfl: 

 extirpated. 



Mr. Lifle thinks it is heft, efpecially in lands that v/ork mellow, 

 to fpread and plow the lime in as foon as it is Hacked, rather than 

 to let it lie long covered with the earth in heaps. 



Chalk-lime is not, in his opinion, fo beneficial to land, as ftone- 

 lime J becaufe a greater virtue muft be attributed to the flone-lime 

 for its burning quality after it is laid on. 



Lime, being laid on meadows or paftures, flacks and cools by 

 flow degrees, fo as not to undergo fuch a heat and fermentation, as 

 when it is covered with the hillocks of earth flung up in arable. 



In Leiceflierflaire, they fow or fcatter the lime on wheat-land when 

 they fow the wheat, but on barley-land the lail earth but one ; and 

 fo plow it in, lefl:, if they fhould fow it with the barley in the 

 fpring, it might burn it. They lay five quarters to an acre of each, 

 according to the meafure as it comes from the kiln ; for after it is 

 flack'd, thofe five quarters will make near ten. 



In Shropflaire, they lay dung and lime together, viz. about twenty 

 load of dung, and only twenty bufliels of lime on an acre. 



Mr. Lifle gives it as a rule to all hufljandmen, to be cautious of 

 liming ground, and then plowing out the heart of it. I limed, fays 

 he, fome years ago, in Wiltfliire, feven acres for an experiment, and 

 laid down one acre to its own natural grafs in two years time, the 

 grafs of which is to this day 40 fhillings an acre. The third year 

 I laid down another acre, which is to this day worth 30 Ihillings 

 per acre. The refl; which I plowed five or lix years farther, is not 

 2 worth 



