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MANURES. 



Lime. — This county abounds with limeftone in 

 almoft every corner, and conliderable quantities are 

 manufadlured for the purpofes of building, yet very 

 little is ufed as a mean of improving the foil; al- 

 though, where it has been properly applied, its ef- 

 feds have been abundantly confpicuous. One great 

 reafon why it has not come into more general ufe, 

 may be owing to many injudicious experiments ha- 

 ving been made, where the quantity ufed has been 

 too fmall to produce any beneficial effedts. There 

 can be no doubt but lime applied in a proper man- 

 ner, and, in fufficient quantities, from 300 to 400 

 bufhels of powdered lime to the acre, would operate 

 very powerfully on moft of the foils in this diftridl ; 

 and it is to be hoped, thofe proprietors who pay fo 

 laudable an attention to the improvement of their 

 ertates, and of the country at large, will make luch 

 experiments on their own farms, as will be the 

 means of introducing the general ufe of this valuable 

 manure, which has in other countries been produc- 

 tive of fudi great improvements, Lime-fliells fell 

 at from 6d. to yd. the buftiel at the kiln, though it 

 might be manufadlured on much lower terms, in 

 kilns properly conftruded. 



Marl is not ufed here as a manure, though there 

 is rich (hell-marl in different parts of the county, 

 particularly on his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh's 

 eftate of Boughton, and Sir George Robinfon's e- 

 ftate of Cranford. The effcds of this manure, in pro- 

 ducing great crops both of corn and grafs, are well 

 known in many parts of Scotland, and it would no 



F doubt : 



