|g5 CALCAREOUS MANURES— PRACTICE. 



some others, lime has been largely applied. The use is extending to the 

 lands on all the tide waters of the state ; and it has recently received a 

 new impulse from the low price at which northern stone-lime is now 

 brought and sold. It is ready slaked, and the vessels are loaded in bulk. 

 The lime is sold on James river at 1 cents the bushel, and even may be 

 contracted for at 8 cents, from vessels that come for cargoes of wood, 

 and would come empty but for bringing lime. The greater lightness and 

 cheaper transportation of lime will enable it to be applied where marl 

 could not be carried with profit ; and with the two, there will be but little 

 of lower Virginia which may not be profitably improved by calcareous 

 manures."* 



* Extract from " Report to the State Board of Agriculture, on the most important 

 recent improvements of agriculture in lower Virginia, and the most important defects 

 yet remaining," Farmers' Register, p. 257, vol. x. 



