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and what may be afterwards collected, to turnips: 
And, 
6th. In what quantity ought we to apply them? 
The quantum of manure applied to the acre, must 
necessarily depend on the staple of the soil. If en- 
tirely exhausted of vegetable mould, a great deal 
will not be too much;.but there is a possibility of 
erring, in this respect, even with regard to. poor 
soils. Where an excess of manure exists, the crop 
(whatever it be) runs into stalk and leaf, and the ef- 
fect on the flavor of the vegetable is bad; a fact 
which the experience of all who have tasted the 
cabbages and turnips raised in the paudrette of Pa- 
ris and London, can abundantly establish. Even 
meadows (which are least liable to injury in this 
way) may be tco much dunged. What cultivator, 
of observation, has not seen his cattle turn with dis- 
gust from herbage, the most luxuriant in appear- 
ance, but growing out of masses of manure? This 
circumstance suggests the advantage of going over 
our meadows in the fall and breaking up and dis- 
iributing such lumps of dung as may be found in 
them. 
_ The preceding remarks were confined to stable 
manures, What remains to be said applies to lime, 
marle, vegetable ashes, ashes of earth, and green 
crops ploughed into the ground. 
It will be remembered: that the action of lime, as 
a manure, is owing to its caustictly, or power of dis- 
solving animal or vegetable subsiances; and to its 
quality of absorbing carbonic acid from the atmos- 
phere. These properties render it peculiarly use- 
