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Lime. Liaic is a flicet-ancbor in the Vale 

 hufbandry. It is ufcd invariably, I believe, 

 on every fpecies of foil, and in -mcjl cafes vvitli 

 great fuccefs. It feems to be at prefent a re- 

 ceived idea that the bufinefs of aration could 

 not be carried on, or at Icaft that the prefent 

 rents of land could not be paid, without the 

 affiftance of lime. 



It is not my intention to attempt to prove 

 or difprove the truth of this opinion. Suffice 

 it for me to fay, in this place, that I am not 

 acquainted with any country in which lime 

 is held in fuch high repute, nor where the 

 manufacturing of it is fo common a practice 

 among farmers as it is in this. Almoft every 

 principal farmer upon the margin burns his 

 own lime. 



There are, befides, great number of ^' fale 

 kilns" for fmaller farmers, and for the centre 

 of the Vale, where no materials for burning 

 -are to be had. There is an inflance of one 

 man occupying eight or ten kilns ; burning 

 two or three thoufand chaldrons yearly. 



The LIME-HUSBANDRY of this Diftrlft, 

 therefore, merits particular notice. The fub- 

 jett requires the following divifion : 



I. The 



