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air, and depofited in houfes erected for the purpofe, in the 

 JBerkfliire manner. 



Mr. Kent obferves, " thofe who live in the neighbourhood 

 of Newbury, are fenfible of the ineftimable value of this 

 manure, 



I am not enabled, by chemical experiments, to determine 

 that the qualities of the Norfolk afhes would be fimilar to 

 thofeof Berkfhire, but, fo far as I can judge from the external 

 appearance of the peats and afhes of both counties, I am per- 

 fuaded the Grimfhoe farmer would alfo be ieniible of the 

 great value of this manure. 



With all due deference, therefore, I fuggeft, that in the in- 

 tended improved edition of Mr. Kent's general view, &c. 

 mention may be made of this manure ; and it may be enume- 

 rated among the natural advantages which this county pof- 

 feues. 



Lime, a manure in common ufe in the midland and nor- 

 thern counties, abounds in Norfolk, though it is feldom there 

 applied to that purpofe. Various and contradictory are the 

 opinions which have been mentioned concerning the power 

 ar>d effects of it in agriculture — it has been commended as an 

 excellent fertilizer, and condemned as a pernicious exhaufter 

 of land : I confefs, 1 cannot think it would have been ap- 

 plied by the midland and northern farmers, for half a cen- 

 turv, if general experience had not afcertained its utility. 



In the parifh where I refide, I find it univerfally condemn- 

 ed : Mr. F , a capital farmer here, loft a crop of wheat 



bv ufing it, ten years ago, and no one felt bold enough to 

 make a fecond experiment. On inveftigating, lately, the par- 

 ticulars of this affair, I find Mr. F , inftead of preparing 



his fallow for the feed, by putting on the lime at a proper 

 time before fowing, actually dreffed the growing crop with 



hot 



