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profits which appear in the above calcula- 

 tions. If therefore the floncs be fufficicntly 

 burnt, the neat profit is in this cafe very 

 fmall*. 



4. Soils and Crops. It has already been 

 obferved, that lime is applied indifcriminate- 

 ly to every fpecies o{ foil. 



On the higher drier lands, its utility is 

 evident. 



Ac Malron, it is laid on the calcareous quarry 

 foil with fuccefs. 



In a comparative experiment, fairly and 

 accurately made on a rif^'^^?;;^^/^;/ above Pick- 

 ering, with three chaldron of lime an acre ; 

 the value of the lime to the firft crop, wheat, 

 was not lefs than two quarters an acre, and 



the 



* Nothing, perhaps, would encreafe the profits of 

 lime-burning in ibis place more than the kiln being 

 filled by the hand of the mafter, or Ibme judiciou'; per- 

 fon not intereftctd in a wafte of coals. It is the intereft 

 of men who burn by the chaldron to underbreak the 

 ftones, and to make up for the deficiency of labour by 

 an increafe of coaL ; which likewife will make up for 

 ncglecT:, or want of judgement in filling. Let the 

 Itones be raifed and broken by the chaldron, or the kiln ; 

 but let the filling be done by women and boys ; by 

 which means induftry will be encouraged, and the 

 ftones, by pafling- under the mafter'seyc, will of courfe 

 berejefted, if not fufficiently broken, 



