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employ a fet of laborers the fummer 

 through. 



Experiencing the tedioufnefs and incon- 

 veniency of t,hefe operations, and feeing 

 the wetnefs and uncertainty of the climate, 

 with refpedito " burning Beat," it ftruck 

 me that much time would be faved, and 

 a degree of certainty gained, by uniting 

 the two operations of preparing Lime and 

 burning Beat : namely, by burning the 

 Beat with the Lime ; and by mixing the 

 Lime with the allies and foil of the Beat : 

 thus favinpr, on either hand, much labor ; 

 fettins: the feafon, as it were, at defiance 

 (for the wetter the Beat the quicker 

 would be the operation of the Lime) -, 

 and, at the fame time, deftroying the roots 

 and feeds of weeds, with the eggs of 

 infeds and animalcula of various kinds, 

 and this perhaps with lefs injury to the 

 vegetable matter of the Beat, than by the 

 ordinary procefs of combuflion. Strongly 

 impreffed with thefe ideas, I fet about 

 carrying them into execution. The refult 

 will appear, in the Minutes. 



M 2 SEMINATION. 



