112 A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTION OF 



The success of most -operations, but more especially 

 of those of a chemical nature, greatly depends upon a 

 regular znd due observance -of circumstances apparentlv 

 trivial. 



'This preparation of lime and peat is in a peculiar man- 

 ner conducive to the growth of clover, and of the short, 

 and as i:hey are called, sweet kinds of pasture grasses. 

 The soil also, by the application of it, acquires such a 

 predisposing tendency to promote the growth of such 

 grasses, as to prevent its growing afterwards rank, coarse, 

 or sour herbage. 



Notwithstanding that this preparation ofiime and peat 

 is certainly, ■when properly made, a valuable manure, 

 yet the advantages that may be derived, by using alkaline 

 salts instead of lime, are of much greater importance 

 and general utility ; in as much as the peat, by alkaline 

 salts, is rendered complet^y soluble ; whilst, by the ap- 

 plication of lime, no greater proportion of it is made 

 capable of solution than what is equivalent to the quan- 

 tity of volatile alkali, which may be generated in the 

 l>rocess; besides which, a large proportion -of the acids 



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