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the fucceeding crop of oats, (which now arc 

 \ipon the ground, Aug. 1787.) is a ftill 

 ilronger evidence of the great utility of lime 

 in fame cafes : in this cafe the crop at leaft 

 threefold. 



Neverthelefs It may be prudent in the oc- 

 cupiers of the cold moiji clays in the bottom 

 of the Vale to lime with caution. 



Its ufe to the Iccfe famiy foils of the Weft 

 Marfnes is, I believe, fully eftabliihed ; yet 

 in a comparative experiment on a blackmoory 

 foil ics effccfl has thus far (the third crop) been 

 4etrhne!Jfal rather than ferviceable. 



It is not my intention to damp the fpirit of 

 improvement, but to endeavour to direfl it 

 to fuitable objedts. Nothing, at prefent, but 

 COMPARATIVE EXP ERiMENTS Can determine 

 the value of a given lime to a given foil ; 

 nnd no man can, with common prudence, 

 lime any land upon a large fcaic, until a 

 moral ccrtaintv of improvement has been 

 cilablifhed by experience. 



The prevailing crop is 'wheat on fallo"Jt;. Tt is 

 alio pretty generally fet on for rape, iurneps, 

 or other crop, after fed burnujg^ and fprcacj 

 among the alhcs. It is alfo fpmctimes fct on 



for 



