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my own practice , and which all countries are 

 beginning to be aware of. I am afraid, how- 

 ever, that the principal part of the little ma- 

 nure which is fet upon grafsland in this Dif- 

 trict, is carried on during the frofts of win- 

 ter ; the worft time invention can devife. 



Lime is, in the general idea of the country, 

 rather injurious than beneficial to grafsland. 

 Evidences are produced againft it ; but they 

 are not conclufive : the trials which are faid 

 to have been made were on cold retentive 

 foils ; the leaft likely, perhaps, to ba im- 

 proved by lime. To corn-crops lime is mo ft 

 beneficial on dry warm foils ; and fome re- 

 cent experience here mews, that on fuch foils 

 lime is beneficial to grafs. 



A quantity of lime having been fcattered 

 accidentally on fward, it was obferved to in- 

 jure the herbage confiderably for the firft 

 three or four years. This of courfe corro- 

 borated the opinion of its being injurious to 

 grafs. But in a few years more this inciden- 

 tal patch became much fuperior to the reft 

 of the piece it lies in ; and has now continu- 

 ed to be fo for fome years. The foil a middle 

 loam, on a rocky fubftratum. 



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