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to be preferred, so that the lime may be completely mixed 

 with the soil before the crop is sown ; and us it is both a 

 valuable and expensive manure, too much attention cannot 

 be given it. 



Applying lime to green crops is attended with more dif- 

 ficulty. From observation and practice, Mr Rennie re- 

 commends, that, for a crop of turnips, lime should be laid 

 on so early in the spring as to admit of two, if not three 

 ploughings, and as many harrowings, after it is laid on, so 

 as both to mix it properly with the soil, and also to let it 

 have time to cool in the land, otherwise it will be very apt 

 to cause the loss of the turnip crop. 



Mr Park of Windy-Mains is accustomed, to lay lime on 

 the land intended for turnips, immediately after harvest, 

 when the land has got the first furrow. He first makes a 

 pair of harrows go backward and forward on each ridge 

 to smooth it, then lays down the shells in huts about 60 

 or 80 bolls per acre Scotch ; as soon as it is powdered, he 

 spreads the huts, and harrows the field, and lets it remain 

 till May, when it may be prepared for receiving the dung. 



Mr Brodie of Garvald, who has long paid peculiar and 

 successful attention to the management of lime, adopts the 

 following plan in applying lime to his turnip land. After 

 the ground intended for turnips has got a winter and a 

 spring furrow, the lime is laid on, and well harrowed in : 

 it then gets another furrow before making up the drills, 

 and is again well harrowed, for the double purpose of get- 

 ting the lime intimately mixed with the soil, and taking out 

 any quickens, or other weeds, by which the field is infest- 

 ed. The turnips are sown in drills, both as being better 

 for the turnip crop than when sown broad-cast, and the 

 lands are got better cleaned, either from annual or peren- 

 nial weeds. It is reckoned an advantage, to have the lime 

 got forward during the former summer, previous to its b<?- 



