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per acre, the benefit derived was, that where the lime was used, 

 I had thirty bushels of good sound wheat per acre, and where it 

 was not used, I had only eighteen of poor shrunk grain. The 

 account stood thus : 



LIMED ACRE. 



To 30 bushels of wheat, at 4s 6 



To 40 bushels of lime, at 6d. . 1 



5 



UNLIMED ACRE. 



By 18 bushels, at 2s. 3d 2 6 



Balance in favour of limed acre. . 2196 



500 



This I repeated the following season, and with a similar result, 

 and I am satisfied that any person adopting the like course will 

 find a similar result. 



There is nothing from which the Canadian farmers suffer so 

 much as from the rust in their wheat crops, and if by the simple 

 and cheap application of a few loads of lime to every acre of 

 fallow, and at the same time taking care that a free passage be 

 given to carry off the surface water, they can in a great measure 

 remedy this evil ; I am certain there is no one will regret having 

 tried it, and when they have once tried it, will continue to do so 

 on every possible occasion." 



229(a). Early taking of the crop. It is now agreed on all 

 hands that grain should be reaped before it becomes what is called 

 dead ripe. In the case of wheat and oats, when the grains have 

 ceased to yield a milky fluid on being pressed under the thumb 

 nail, and when the ears and a few inches of the stem immediate- 

 ly underneath them have become yellow, the sooner they are 

 reaped the better. (Ency. Bri., new Ed., 1853.) 



