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so much money thrown away. He can give no stronger 

 proof, of his conviction in that respect, than his practice 

 upon the farm of Rutherford. He entered to that farm 

 in June 1808, and since that time he has gone over about 

 eight hundred and fifty acres ; and though a great part of it 

 consists of a light dry soil, and the lime has to be carried 

 twenty-four or twenty-five miles, consequently at a great 

 expence, yet on no part of the farm has he laid less than 

 40 bolls of shells, or 240 Winchester bushels per English 

 acre, and on many places fully 50 bolls. Nothing, in his 

 opinion, assimilates the produce of outfield, to that of in- 

 field land so much, as a good dose of lime laid on at once. 

 The consequence of this liming has been, the most produc- 

 tive crops, of every description, to be seen in all that neigh- 

 hood. 



Mr Aitchison of Clements Wells also has found that lime 

 answers every purpose he could wish, in promoting the im- 

 provement of his estate in Peebles-shire, where the climate 

 is cold and moist. He began to improve that property in 

 1806, and in October 1811 he had laid on it, 10,386 bolls, 

 or 62,316 Winchester bushels. His ridges are IS feet 

 broad, and according to the quantity he wishes to put on 

 per acre, his overseer has the following table to conduct the 

 operation. 



If it is proposed to lay on 25 bolls per acre, betwixt cacli 

 heap, of one firlot each, there ought to be a distance 

 of 30| feet. 



If 30 bolls, 254 



35 do. 22 



40 do. 19 



45 do. 17 



And in the same proportion as high as 50 bolls. He never 

 puts on less tlnm 25 bolls, or 150 bushels of shells, per 



