ered with earth, turf, or vegetable matter to a depth sufficient 

 to absorb all the liquid manure. Every part should be secured 

 as much as possible from exhalation by the heat of the sun. 



It seems to be generally agreed by English Agriculturalists, 

 that stable manure by fermenting, loses a great part of its 

 value. Mr. Coke, the great English Commoner and Agricultu- 

 ralist, says, that by using his manure fresh, it went twice as far 

 as it did formerly, when used after fermentation. As a general 

 rule it cannot be doubted that it is much better to apply ma- 

 nure to land in tillage than in grass. In the latter case a great 

 portion of it is lost by evaporation. 



Mineral Manures. It seems very desirable that the mineral 

 manures should have a much more effectual and extensive tria 

 than they have ever had in Ibis county. The virtues of lime 

 have been so highly extolled, and it has been in fact so pow- 

 erful a fertilizer of land in other countries, that it deserves a 

 full and fair experiment here. Experience seems to have 

 shown that lime when applied in so small a quantity as twenty 

 bushels to the acre, may alter the texture and constitution of 

 the soil, and render it fit for the production of crops of which 

 it was before incapable. 



A late and excellent writer on agriculture says, "it is inconcei- 

 vable what eflfect lime has on the productiveness of the earth. 

 Philosophers have investigated its nature and properties to find 

 out the secret spell by which it works, and while some have 

 attributed the effect to its power of decomposing putrescible 

 matter, or to its affinity for carbonic acid, others have ascribed 

 it to the change effected on the constitution of the soil. All 

 however are agreed that no land after its first and natural 

 richness has been exhausted by cropping, can continue fertile 

 without a mixture of this fossil. Its use was the first thing 

 which revived English agriculture after it had long languished 

 in the most abject state, and the first thing which raised Scot- 

 land to opulence and independence. Lime as a manure has 

 found its way into France and Germany, and it is blended with 

 the soil along the shores of the Baltic. In Southern latitudes 

 this mineral manure is more generally applied, either incor- 



