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termined to increafe the quantity every year, till 

 he gets a fourth part of his farm under them. 

 The effect of lime was never difplayed in a 

 clearer manner than upon Mr. Aldworth'sfarm. 

 The foil, I fhould obferve, is a loam and brick 

 clay, on a rock of lime-ftone, from nine inches 

 to three feet deep on it; but what is remark- 

 able, all the loofe furface ftones are grit, and 

 all the quarries lime-ftone. Upon this foil he 

 has found the benefit (urprifingly great: where 

 he limes he gets very good crops; and where 

 he does not he can get no crops at all. In my 

 life I never faw this clearer difplayed than in 

 two of his fields this year, one wheat and the 

 other barley ; in each there was about an acre 

 not limed, but all the reft had 100 barrels an 

 acre ; the parts limed had a very fine crop, but 

 thofe two (pots a wretched one ; literally (peak- 

 ing, not worth mowing; and another fmaller 

 patch in the barley field the fame ; the crop ex- 

 cellent to an inch where the lime was laid, and 

 immediately adjoining nothing but weeds. Ano- 

 ther experiment, (hewing the great efficacy of 

 it, was a comparifon he made of it with the 

 (heep fold; he folded part without liming in a 

 field, the reft of which was limed, and the fu- 

 periority of the latter part was very great. Mr. 

 Aldworth fpreads it on his fallows for wheat, 

 and on his potatoe-land for barley. It is to be 

 noted that this land was never limed before. 

 Upon another part of his farm which had been, 

 limed, he does not find the benefit to be equal. 

 He burns his lime in both running and ftand- 

 ing kilns ; in the former with culm, and the 



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