44 ON MANURES. 



"W. B. Framingham;" and, as those numbers have 

 been selected from his paper, and been republished in 

 all parts of the Union with apparent approbation, we 

 intend to give them a still more extended circulation, — 

 reserving, however, our copy right to spell the words 

 our instructors in English taught us, when we were of 

 an age to learn. We shall spell turnip without an e, 

 and lie, from ashes, differently from ley — pronounced 

 lee — a field. 



But to the subject. We are not yet too old to learn, 

 when we have a proper instructor; but we must ac- 

 knowledge that, in this case, we do not comprehend 

 our master. If we consent to spread one or two 

 bushels of lime on an acre of wheat, because wheat 

 takes some lime out of the soil, we are told, peremptori- 

 ly, that we should use twenty or thirty bushels, be- 

 cause the wheat takes up but a small pprtion of 

 the lime sown ! And when we stated that we had 

 tried three casks, or nine bushels, on about twenty rods 

 of ground, we are told that the reason why our crop 

 was not benefited by it was, that we used '^ eight times 

 as much as was recommended for a light soil." If 

 seventy-two bushels, our quantity, is eight times too 

 much, then nine bushels would be the right quantity 

 to an acre ; just now, twenty or thirty would not be 

 too much! But ''our lime is much superior to the 

 English lime." Then two bushels might do, possibly, 

 notwithstanding English books to the contrary. Again, 

 some lime has sand in it, and therefore, says he, "if 

 such lime be added to a sandy soil, it would increase 

 that ingredient in the soil, of which there is aheady 

 more than enough;" "and sometimes twenty bushels 

 is enough on sandy soils." This is precious; twenty 

 bushels on a sandy soil, yet, if there is sand in the lime, 

 the more you put on, the worse you make the soil. 

 The result seems to be, that you must put sandy lime 

 on to a clayey soil, and clayey lime, or none at all, on 

 to a sandy soil. Again, "lime acts powerfully on any 



