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bursed, and has an ameliorated pasture, as the reward of 

 his industry and superior management. 



Though liming the surface, " to extirpate heath, and 

 improve pasturage," may not be a profitable concern on 

 old swards, it is proper to observe, that when land is 

 broken up, merely for the sake of improving the pasturage, 

 the best, and most economical mode isj to apply lime to 

 the surface, and to harrow it along with the grass seeds. A 

 great extent of hilly pasture, has thus been improved by 

 Mr Dawson, and others, in Roxburghshire.* 



6. Mr Kerr, the intelligent reporter of the Husbandry 

 of Berwickshire, has transmitted to me the following cal- 

 culation of the expence of liming. The lime he used was 

 brought by sea to Eyemouth ; and the price, besides car- 

 riage, amounted to 25 d. per boll, in shells, each boll con- 

 taining four Winchester bushels ; hence to lime an acre of 

 land with 35 bolls, will cost about L. 3, 15s., besides car- 

 riage and spreading, which, the distance being short, may 

 amount to 10s. more, or L. 4-, 5s. per acre; and as this 

 operation was usually repeated twice during a lease of nine- 

 teen years, liming, in his situation, may be considered as. a 

 yearly charge of 10s. per acre. 



How astonished would not many farmers be in other 

 countries, when they hear that Scotch farmers, subject 

 themselves to an expence of 10s. per acre per annum, for 

 lime alone, a sum not much inferior to the average rent of 

 land in many English counties. But the expence is well 

 bestowed, were it only from the benefit thence to be deri- 

 ved in the cultivation of green crops of every description. 

 For though such crops can be raised by large quantities of 



* For a detailed account of this excellent method, as practised by Mr 

 Dawson, see the Farmer's Magazine for March, 1812. 



