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contraft in this particular (which is at prefent fo much in favour of Nor- 

 thamptonfliire) will not long continue to be fo (Iriking. 



LIME. 



NOKTHAIMPTON-SHIRE, 



There is abundance of limeftone in al- 

 moft every corner of the county ; yet, ex- 

 cept for the purpofes of building, very 

 little is manufadhired in the diftrift. 

 Though in kilns properly conflruded, it 

 can be bunied on terms fo low as to en- 

 able the manufadhirer to fell it at the rate 

 of 4 d. or 5 d. per bulhel. 



PERTH-SHIRE. 



Tlicre is no limeftone but in the re- 

 mote pans of this county, and tliat h of 

 fo hard a nature, as not to be reducible to 

 powder, but by means of coal. The di- 

 ftance and expence of the carriage of 

 which is fo great, as to amount almoft to 

 a prohibition. Limeftone fhclls, after be- 

 ing burned in the eaft coait of England, 

 and the fouth of Scotland, is imported 

 here by fea, and cofts about 4-j- d. per bufh- 

 el. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



The value of lime as a manure is vpell known in Perthfhire, and its ef- 

 feds in producing great crops both of corn and grafs (after an experience 

 of upwards of 50 years) have been afcertained to the fatisfadion of every 

 farmer in the diftridt.. — The quantity of powdered lime Jaid on the acre 

 in general (reckoning that every bufhel of fhells will produce 3 bulhels 

 of powdered lime) is about 380 bufhels the acre; and confequently the 

 coft per Englifh acre is about L. 2 : 7 : 6. — Lime is generally laid on the 

 land in the courfe of a fallow, as a preparation for wheat ; — it is general- 

 ly done in the month of July, or beginning of Auguft, and plowed in 

 with a very fhallow furrow ; and before the laft plowing is given, (which 

 is generally in September), about 24 loads of dung from the farm-yard, is 

 alfo laid on the acre. The dung-carts ufed in the Carfe of Cowrie, are 

 nearly as large as thofe ufed in Northamptonfhire. — In the narrow di- 

 ftricft of the Carfe of Cowrie alone, which, as has been obferved, does not 

 contain above 30,000 Englifh acres, lime, to the value of L. 1800 per an- 

 mm, has been imported for the laft 7 years ; — and has been principally, 

 indeed almoft wholly, ufed as manure. 



In Northamptonfliire, though lime can be procured in almoft every 

 parifh, it has hitherto been but partially ufed as a manurc-^-And whe- 

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