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will there meet with able cultivators from every part 

 of the kingdom, and may learn where best to diredl 

 his steps, whatever may be his object : and this, let 

 me remark, is no inconsiderable proof of the great 

 national utility of those meetings. I have met 

 fanners both at Wobnrn and at Holkham, who 

 were in the progress of such jdurnies, were pro- 

 perl v and usefully inquisitive, and without doubt 

 . ed no slight advantage from the knowledge 

 thus gained. This is a good season for a journey; 

 the corn of all sorts shews itself to advantage ; 

 the turnip season is hi full operation ; lucerne is 

 mowing for soiling ; the marie carts are at work ; 

 the lime-kilns active, and most of the works of a 

 farm either in operation or effect. 



LIME. 



The lime-kilns ought to be in full work in this 

 month, and there is no better time for carting and 

 spreading it. At this period the proper land to 

 spread it on is the turnip fallows, which now being 

 in full tilth, if the surface be well harrowed after 

 receiving the manure, the union of it with the soil 

 will be intimate ; it should be left some time before 

 ploughing for slacking and re-imbibing the car- 

 bonic acid driven from it by the act of burning. 

 Modern chemists are much inclined to attribute 

 great effects to this acid in the business of vegeta- 

 tion ; the point is by no means fully elucidated, 

 and does not very well accord with the very small 

 benefit derived from lime when laid on certain poor 

 soils ; but as there are many others on which the 



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