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the feafcn will admit of it, until a fall of 

 rain has fl:ill more intimately united the 

 two fubflances. 



The other method is to mix the Lime, 

 BY HAND, with a certain portion of foil 

 coUeded for that p"urpofe ; agreeably to the 

 practice of the Diftrict under review. 



In a favorable climate ; in the fummer 

 feafon ; and where a fafficient quantity of 

 Lime can be readily colledied ; there can 

 be no doubt as to the fuperiority of the 

 firil method : it is more expeditious, much 

 lefs expenlive, and infinitely m.ore com- 

 pleat. 



But, in a lefs certain climate and feafon j 

 and where the bulinefs of fetching Lime 

 goes on flowly, — continuing, perhaps^ 

 through the fummer months, the Devon- 

 fhire praftice, unlefs the Lime were lodged 

 under cover, until the land were ready tO' 

 receive it, is certainly the mofl: eligible. 

 The great objeftion to it. is the labor and 

 expence which it incurs. The " hacking 

 of vorrage" — the forming of " earth 

 ridges," the *' melling," and ** fetting 

 about lime and earth" m.av be faid to 



employ 



