350 MANURES. ar. 



Thevvorfl: is that of laying it in large heaps, 

 and liiffering it to run to a jelly before it be 

 fpread upon the land. 



Next to this is fetting it about the land in 

 fmnll hillocks ; for although thefe hillocks be 

 fpread before they approach to a date of 

 mortar, this method is injudicious. 



Lime which falls in the open air does not 

 fall to powder, but breaks into checquers, or 

 fmall cubical mafles ; which beino; once 

 buKied in the foil, may remain in it for ages 

 without being mixt intimately with it. 



As far as experience and theory have yet 

 reached, lime ought to be fpread in a ftate of 

 PERFECT POWDER ; thereby lodging it in the 

 pores of the foil ; and thus, by afTimilating 

 the two ingredients, form with them one ho- 

 moo-encous calcareous mafs. 



A finale jione expofcd to a moift atmofpherc 

 falls entirely mio granules, not 'm\.o powder*. 



The 



* It is obfervablc, however, that ir.ucb depends up- 

 on the nature of the ftone from which the lime has 

 been burur. Stones of a unif rni texture, as moft 

 niavblcs, ;.rc Icfs liable to fall in granules than ftones 

 whiv-h are natumlly compofcd of ijrains, or arc divided 

 bv nlRirts into natural fragments. 



