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flriklng inflance of it. A meagre thin- 

 foiled fwell, never worth half a crown an 

 acre, has, by burning and liming, been 

 ftimulated to throw out, part after part, 

 ample crops of wheat : which, however, 

 were found to exhaufl the foil, fo com-^ 

 pleatly, that no after crops of grain were 

 attempted ; but the land was fuffered to 

 lay down again to reft, and yet remains in 

 a ftate of fall lefs value, perhaps, than it 

 was in, before it was broken up for wheat. 

 This, however, is not an evidence againfl 

 the operation of fodburning ; but the 

 reverfe, The value of the wheat, thus 

 produced, was probably equal to that of the 

 fee fimple of the land it grew on; which, 

 if a grateful return, of part of this value 

 received, had been made, would probably 

 A^ have been put into a much better ftate 

 than it was in, before it underwent this pro-? 

 Citable operation. 



Does not lime, when ufed alone, adl as a 

 ftimulus ? Does not tillage a<ft as a ftimu- 

 lus ? Yet will any one affert that calcareous 

 parths and tillage are unfriendly tp agri« 

 culture ? 



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