40 On the use of Lime in England. 



of farm yard and stable dung, seeded with turnips, be- 

 tween the 10th and the 15th of sixth month, ard sold 

 at from three to five guineas per acre, to dealers who 

 bought the large Lincolnshire sheep, weighing gene- 

 rally from 26 to 36 lbs. per quarter, to eat off the tur- 

 nips in winter ; and in the spring, ploughed very shal- 

 low, and seeded with barley, either drilled with two 

 bushels per acre, or if sown broad cast from three to 

 four ; the produce generally six quarters or 48 bushels, 

 Winchester measure, (which is common measure 

 through the West Riding of Yorkshire, as is also the 

 statute acre) with the barley, clover seed, or else the 

 spring following peas and beans : the clover was mow- 

 ed twice, ploughed in and seeded with wheat, the ave- 

 rage produce 30 bushels, then the wheat stubble was 

 ploughed in for fallow again. For the first 25 or 30 

 years, clover was regularly sown every round of crops, 

 but it depreciated so much, that during my residence 

 there, it was only seeded every other round, and peas 

 and beans alternately, an evidentproof of the necessity 

 of change. On heavy clays, particularly in ope|^ town 

 fields where the farmers are obliged for mutual conve- 

 nience to sow always alike, the rotation is summer 

 fallow, dunged as for turnips, in the fall w^heat, clover 

 or peas and beans one year, and again wheat ; the ave- 

 rage produce of wheat, ^vas from 20 to 25 bushels per 

 acre, first crop ; second from 16 to 20; lime was oc- 

 casionally used as on the light soils. 



I remember one curious circumstance ; a relation of 

 mine, who was in the habit of using the caustic lime, 

 as we used to call it, (the magnesian not having enter- 

 ed our chymical nomenclature) having thrown in a 



