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ated ill the neighbourhood of a town, where more dung 

 may be procured than can be spared from the farm in its 

 contiguity. A soil of this nature can receive little or no 

 benefit by the application of lime, as it contains nothing 

 for the lime to aft upon or combine with. When under 

 such circumstances, that dung, or such like manure, can- 

 not be procured, a preparation of peat, with the mode- 

 rate proportion of lime before directed, seems to be the 

 next best application. A soil of poor lean clay, such as 

 above described, will require eight tons of lime, and 

 forty-eight tons of peat, for one dressing. Doing things 

 partially can never answer : this quantity is the least that 

 ought to be applied ; a much greater may be given, if the 

 articles can be cheaply and easily procured. In this the 

 farmer will be regulated, in a great measure, by his abi- 

 lity of doing, or extent of his capital. His primary objecft, 

 in this case, should be to promote the growth of pasture 

 grasses, because the soil at first will be in no heart to pro- 

 duce crops of grain ; and, secondly, because the promoting 

 the growth of such grasses, and Judiciously depasturing 

 and folding, is the surest way of improving such lands. 

 After the grass has taken hold of the ground, and is be- 

 ginning to carry a tolerably thick sward, its thickness 



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