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regards the use in Tiianuring, a considerable portion of the agricultural 

 districts in the Province lies in the formation affording limestones, and 

 except for special and occasional purposes lime will not be required 

 in their cultivation — but it must find profitable application by the far- 

 mers in the rest of the Province where lime rocks are altogether 

 absent or but scantily developed. In recent years stone bridges 

 have been constructed for railways, and w^ooden buildings have been 

 replaced in the capital by those of brick and stone; before this 

 change there could have been little demand for lime, which must 

 have been used chiefly for building foundations and chimneys, be- 

 cause the walls and ceilings would be almost everywhere of the 

 plaster made from the gypsum, which is found as the very frequent 

 associate of the limestone. 



On comparing the census returns of 1851 and 1861, we find, of 

 course, that with the progress of the country there is increased use 

 of lime. In the former year there were burned in the Province 

 28,603 casks ; taking four bushels to the -cask, which is St. John 

 measure, the amount will be 



Lime burned in Nova Scotia in 1851, 111,412 bushels. 

 By the late census we find there was of 



Lime burned in Nova Scotia in 1861, 136,848 bushels. 



And no doubt, for the reason just given, the next census will 

 show as great an increase as the latter numbers do over the former. 



As regards the amount of lime employed, Mr. Lang thinks tha 

 for the last five years not less than eight to ten thousand barrels o 

 lime have been used per annum in the city of Halifax, and that there 

 will be wanted from seven to eight thousand pounds worth of lime 

 durinsr the ensuino- summer. 



The details of the census returns are interesting : they show that 

 five counties only burned no lime and that the rest of the eighteen 

 gave very different quantities : 



CEJfsus Returns for 1861. 

 Counties. Bushels of Lime Burned. 



Colchester, 4,8G0 



King's 



Cumberland, 10,605 



Annapolis, • • • 



Pictou, . .35.990 



Hants, ., .....17,474 



