On the use of Lime in England, 41 



greater quantity of land for fallow than common, find- 

 ing that his dung would not reach over the whole of 

 it, tried what the farmers call stealing a crop, that is, 

 taking one crop more than the common routine, al- 

 ways condemned by good farmers, as a bad practice ; 

 but supposing he could balance the want of dung, for 

 one crop, by a coat of lime, he had recourse to it, but 

 it is so many years since, that I forget the quantity 

 used, however he seeded it with oats, but such was the 

 effects of the lime, that scarcely any thing grew on the 

 whole field but thistles, and of those there was an 

 abundant crop, I believe there was not, on the whole, 

 one cart load of straw. 



In confirmation of the practice of stabbing hoven 

 cattle, (as quoted by judge Peters from John Wynn 

 Baker,) I will just remark, that I have long been in the 

 practice of it, and always do it with a small pen-knife 

 very sharp at the point, with a sudden push, four 

 inches from the hip bone, and four inches from the 

 edge of the loin, and never use a tube of any kind ; 

 the wind rushes out like whistling with the mouth, nor 

 have I found it necessary to use any kind of applica- 

 tion to the wound. I performed the operation this 

 spring on a cow that had lately calved, and she is now 

 near calving again, and is as fat and hearty as any cow 

 in my flock. I always stab in the place mentioned, as 

 the paunch is the nearest the outside of any other part, 

 and the paunch is what always contains the malady, as 



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