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ter ceases to be serviceable. On 

 fields limed and dunged — highly 

 benefits red clover. Repetitions still 

 improve, but not always equal to 

 first application. Again on limed 

 land. Result superior. Repetition. 

 Result equal to first application. 

 Sowed on light soil — had been 

 limed ^ and lightly dunged — in til- 

 lage 80 years. Superior in benefit. 

 Miserable field beiore; now among 

 the best. On field tilled 50 years — 

 sand — limed. Improvement equal 

 to first sowing. Sowed six times 

 in seven years ^ on same field, xvith- 

 oitt manure^ does not injure. Crop 

 equal to any other.' On field limed 

 and dunged. Improvement and 

 product superior ; field tilled 60 

 years. Again on limed land — 

 equal to any other field. Experi- 

 ments on grain Jlax £^c., discour- 

 aging. 

 Richard Petei-s, page 72. Remarkable improvement by plais- 

 ter, at Bethlehem^ in Pennsylvania. 

 Period in which he has used plais- 

 ter. Land worn out, full of weeds 

 and pests, ^lantity per acre. Point of 

 saturation. Regulated by substances 

 hjinds in the earth. Salt; experi- 

 ments on. Kinds of soils favourable 

 to plaister. No success on clay. Re- 

 petitions^ and with what auxiliaries. 

 Dung ; observations on. What Ai?ids 

 of i: rain and grasses are benefitted, 

 or not. Manures; times of applying. 



