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c I Plants. Vol. VIL 



For the Firmer?" Cabinet. 



Wajimtaj ■ nece<*nry constituent of 



- aud Plan] ■ . 



Asl • ■ _ asTie- 



rasai ag agent, 



- • _ 



ropose resting the mogne- 



- 

 i " - - If] 



- . . - 



harmonize with thel 



- " tree test 



• - - 



- - , -- ; 

 observe, that m\: rg has 



your last : i .ideed enoog 



position. I shall merely add a 

 : ■ - _■ 



saussure, which are to the 



-er. who has 



favoured me with another rather facetious 



article. It __re him a r - - . 



notice, in the meantime. Bf 1 



may be no small panegyric of a I 



to say, r is sofl - - r.g and 



- whole 



_ - se notions, 



, . 



B_:: to raj 



• tact and 



zeal, in c : r - - 



tkm c: -. must be 



ter caose. amend 



honourable, ani _ to the 



_ should be rule indeed, 



did Wt ■ " prost rate foe, 



3 the cha- 

 " tots ! He has been 



-. while' 

 " - .' - 

 - res: ;-. I - in his! 



behalf. spai ::im! bat as he has in! 



r.s. or 



'- - I s ed to 



1st. For stal 



pi ied to some 



- That 



some soils are unfriendly to mirn : 



f.iat barrer. - : 



lime, and by clover. 



confli': I _• 4 t fin a may be en- 



. Abb 

 1" My nn has received in all, from time 

 to time, 3" srnes ne per 



it the rate of 1 . bushels per 



and will bear 200 bushels 

 per a:- ... 



I shall not 



nomi: - - A friend near me, 



ad, 250 bos bat ml 



■ ■ -- ■ . . - . that to 200 



I bushels of lime are a _ 



I their more highly manured and cult: 



always 



tifty of mar. 



- • seal: not raly to 



acid, to enable the hot lime 



" . : also to furnish 



:th or act upon; the 



productive power of the land 



rres _ lease ':. Ana 2 



and wet s - - -idly to mineral 



agenc. . because lime will harden 



*er, and because wet 



- re not permeable to light and air, and 

 partake of the temperature of the water, 



-:urated; consequently 

 :. or putrefaction 

 - ied, if not prevented. Again, on the 

 same farm we frequently see the effects of 

 lime on re stria n g on some fields 



than on rv.ers: generally, perhaps, owing 

 to a la:: geta - -:ance. and there- 



fore m : : : speedy action of 



mineral agency. Ana 3rd. Barren tracts, 

 cannot be renovated by clover directly, be- 

 cause clover will not grow : yet by ar 

 lime on a barren sori : i year or longer, 



before it is cob . there will be a new 



_ r giass ; (s 



t, by a Deer Creek 

 farmer.) and after a course of cultiv 

 may be additionally improved by clover, 

 will then flourish. Ans. 



- '-. re kept in a 



- a. by stable or animal ma- 

 nure, without any lime or magnesia being 

 applied, and why ! • . animal manures 



furnish both the? s, in addition to 



I may contain. 



v to 1 .. '.en we r.. - 

 the cow or - 

 - .cate of potash (trie pabu- 

 lum of wheat) and some salts of sul 

 acid. In human faeces, applied in different 

 . we the land phosphate 

 and maarnesia. And in the dunsr of 

 e it phosphate of magnesia 

 " : f potash. 

 •• Without alhalies and alkaline base a, 



-• ■ Seeds of whe " I 

 corn, could not be formed without phosphate 

 of marnesic." '• Soils are rendered unfit 

 for the - • a of potatoes, even though 



the tops be returned to the soil after the re- 

 moval of the crop, unless some means are 

 I to replace the phosphate of ma^ne- 

 - - potatoes. "' 

 1 We may form an idea of the quan" 

 phosphate of i . na in grain and grass, 



