LI Mi: AS A MANUUh. •—"» 



wh.at which becomes sooner ripe, though it yields no larger a 

 relur./ when lime is applied t.. the hmd on which it is .'?rown 



1„ ui^trkts where the mid^-e aff.cts the wheat. U is exceedingly 

 imp<.rtant to get a variety of wheat that ripens early ; and if mie 

 will favor early maturity, without checking the growth, it will be 

 of great value. 



A correspondent in Delaware writes: "I have used lime as. 

 manure in various ways. For low land, the best way is, t<. sow it 

 Troaacast while the vegetation is in a green state, at the ra e of 40 

 or 50 bushels to the a.re ; but if I can not use it before the frost 

 kills the ve-'Ctation. I wait until the land is plowed in the spring, 

 when I spread it on the plowed u-rnuud in about the same cp.ant.ty 

 as before Last year, I tried il bo.h ways, and the result was my 

 crop w,us increased at least fourlold in each instance, but that 

 used on the veirelation was best. The soil is a low, black sa»d. 



A farmer writes frou. New Jersey, that he has used ov. r 

 C 000 bushels of lime on his farm, and also considerable guano and 

 nh..sphates, but considers tnat the lime has pail the best. Is 

 farm has mole than doubled in real value, and he attributes this 



prinfipallv to the use of lime. 



^ MU- lime." he says, "whenever it i3 convenient but prefer to 

 put it on at least one year before plov.ing the land We spread 

 from 25 to 40 bushels of lime on the sod in the fall ; plant with 

 corn the f.dlowing summer; next spring, sow with oats and 

 clover; and the ne..t summer, plow under the c over and sow 

 with wheat and timothy. We have a variety of soils from a 

 sandy loam to a stiff clay, and are certain that lime will pay on 

 all or any of them. Some of the best farmers in our C..unty com- 

 menced iiminir when the lime cost 25 cts. a bushel, and their farms 

 are ahead yet, more in value, I indge. than tue hme cost The 

 man who first commences using lime, will get so far ahead, whUe 

 his neighbors arc looking on. that they will never catch up. ^^ 



Another correspondent in Hunterdon Co., >*. J., writes : r.^- 

 perience has tauirht me that the best and most profitable mode of 

 Applying lime is on grass land. If the grass seed is «own in the 

 fill with the wheat or rye, which is the common practice with us 

 in New Jersey, as soon as the l-.arvcst comes off the next year, we 

 apply the lime with the least delay, and while fresh slacked and in 

 a dry .and mealy state. It can be spread more evenly on the 

 ground, and is in a state to be more readily taten „p by the fine 

 roots of the plants, than if allowed to got wet and clammy. It m 

 found most beneficial to keep it as near the surface of the ground 



