IZ2 A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTION OF 



The success of most operations, but more especially 

 of those of a chemical nature, greatly depends upon a 

 regular and due observance of circumstances apparently 

 trivial, 



-oThis preparation of lime and peat is in a peculiar man- 

 ner conducive to the growth of clover, and of the short, 

 and as they are called, sweet kinds of pasture grasses. 

 The soil also, by the application of it, acquires such a 

 predisposing tendency to promote the growth of such 

 grasses, as to prevent its growing afterwards rank, coarse, 

 or sour herbage. 



Notwithstanding that this preparation of lime and peat 



is certainly, when properly made, a valuable manure, 



yet the advantages that may be derived, by using alkaline 



salts instead of lime, are of much greater importance 



and general utility ; in as much as the peat, by alkaline 



salts, -is rendered completely soluble,.; whilst, by the ap- 



plication of lime, no greater proportion of.it is made 



capable of solution than what is equivalent to the quan- 



tity of volatile alkali, which may be generated in the 



processj besides which, a large proportion of the acids 



con- 



