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couraging, if not a perilous undertaking; for many 

 of them are testy and combative, as well as big- 

 otted, and consequently obstinate ; but I believe 

 you have both the personal and moral courage 

 suited to the occasion, and, at the same time, a wil- 

 Hngness to receive aid, even fi-om the niost feeble 

 of your true and sincere friends. Let me add, 

 therefore, that, if "clappino- on the back" by a wil- 

 ling coadjutor in this vital cause, can be of any 

 service to you in making battle for it, you have 

 only to call for such service, and it shall be, at all 

 times, most cheerfully rendered without regard to 

 personal consequences, by 



Your old personal, political and 

 agricultural friend, 



JAMES M. GARNETT. 



not have exceet^ec^ five barrels, before the clover 

 was sown. 



M. D. 



For the Fainiers' Register. 

 FERTILIZING EFFECTS OF CLOVER. 



In 1835, S. M., in the county of Campbell, made 

 14 2-5 barrels (72 bushels) of corn to the acre on 

 land, a hill side, which had been improved only 

 by clover and plaster. 



The seed was sown in 18.32, and the clover, 

 without being mowed or grazed, was permitted to 

 rot on the ground three years. The owner thinks 

 the product would have been larger if the corn 

 had been planted closer, and that The crop would 



MINERAL MANURES. 



Extract from No. 46 of the Farmer's Series of the 

 Library of Useful Knowledge first published in London, 

 Nov. 15, 1833. 



Lime Kilns. 



The calcination of lime is an operation so gene- 

 rally understood in every part of the country where 

 it is commonly found, that it scarcely requires to 

 be described. Its effective burning "is however a 

 point of some difficulty, and the "construction of 

 kilns has occasioned much discussion. They pos- 

 sess various degrees of merits, but thffir descrip- 

 tion would occupy more space than can be afford- 

 ed to the subject in the limits of this publication. 

 We however extract the account of one designed 

 several years ago by the late Bishop of Clogiier— 

 or, as other accounts say, bv Mr. Rawson, of 

 Cardington, in the county of Kildare*— which has 

 since extended to several other parts of Ireland, 

 where it has been found of the most essential ser- 

 vice in the improvement of the moors and bogs, 

 and is so simple as to deserve to be more o-eneral- 

 ly known. '^ 



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It is partly an inverted cone, and partly a cylin- 

 der, of which the annexed cut will afford an eleva- 

 tion. 



The dimensions of the conical part are 8 feet 

 high, and the diameter at bottom about 18 inches; 

 the cylindrical part of the same height as the cone; 

 rr.aking altogether 16 feet; though it is observed 

 by the'reporter that 20 feet in height — namely, 11 

 for the cylinder and 9 for the cone — would be pre- 

 ferable. The diameter of the cylinder, and of 

 course also the largest diameter of the cone, is 8 

 feet. The kiln is to be fed through an iron door, 

 and, when filled, should be shut close: a metal 

 plate with holes, or a close grating, is placed al 

 the bottom to give air to the fire, and two Hues 

 should be carried through the wall at about S feet 

 from the eye of the kiln, in order to add to its force. 



It is also recommended that an oulside wall be 

 slightly raised at such a distance as that about a 

 couple of feet of yellow clay may be closely packed 

 between it and the inner one, a.s a precaution 

 against its splitting, and the fire thus becoming ex- 

 hausted. The llicl used is turf, and, when well 

 attended by a couple of men and a boy, will turn 

 out about 50 barrels of rochc-lime in the twenty- 

 lour hours.f This kiln, together with an attached 



* Surveys of Tyrone, p. 113; and of Cavan, p. 68. 

 Soe also a Prize Essay on the Construction of Lime- 

 kilns, by Mr. Menteath, of Closeburn, in the Transac- 

 tions of' the Highland Society of Scotland, N. S., vol. 

 ii. p. 127; and various remarks upon the construction 

 of kilns, with explanatory engravings, in Malcolm's 

 Coinp. of Mod. Hush., vol. i)p. 58—73. 



