19* OF MANURE. 



cellent practice, and very common in many counties : and 

 many intelligent farmers prefer it to the other plan, which 

 they think would be attended with too much expence to 

 be generally imitated. At the same time, an intimate mix- 

 ture with the soil, is of the utmost importance in the appli- 

 cation of lime ; any plan that contributes to that object me- 

 rits attention. 



Having often heard farmers complain of the difficulty 

 they experienced, in procuring water, in sufficient quan- 

 tities, thoroughly to slack their lime, in some districts ; and 

 in others, of the loss they sustained in carrying on their 

 lime husbandry, by unexpected rains, I have procured, 

 from Mr Ballingal, the following sketch, which, with the 

 references thereto, will fully explain his system. 



moist season slacks or falls it ; but he frequently puts on water from a 

 water-cart, which slacks it directly, and it is immediately spread in that 

 quick state, harrowed, and ploughed in, when it mixes most intimately 

 with the soil. Lime should be in powder, and the land in a powder-like 

 fctate, when it is laid on. 



