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ridges are " melled ;'* the earth and lime 

 are intimately mixed together ; in a very- 

 ingenious and effe(Ctual manner. The 

 workman begins at one end of the ridge ; 

 and, with a hack or fmgle-ended mat- 

 tock, hacks down the heap ; mixing the 

 whole intimately, by beating it with the 

 Jide of the hack j railing it up again with 

 the point, and again hitting it iideway, 

 with a flight and dexterity to be acquired 

 only by pradlice. When the two ingre- 

 dients are fufficiently blended, the compofl 

 is thrown back, with a fhovel, and formed 

 into a roof-like heap ; ftill continuing ta 

 burfl: any lumps the hack had miffed, with 

 the back of the fhovel, and to mingle the 

 parts as evenly as poflible. 



In thefe ridges the compoil: remains, 

 until the time of fpreading. 



Lime compofl is spread from the 

 lodges, or angular heaps above defcribed, 

 by means of gurry huts, or of wheelbarrows. 

 When the latter are ufed, it is proper to 

 harrow and roll the furface, before the 

 operation commences. 



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