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manure for wheat and oats likewise is proved 

 by the increased weight of the flour and meal 

 produced from lands manured by lime, over 

 that from lands after potatoes or any other 

 green crop. And it is much to be desired 

 that greater facilities existed than are already 

 for increasing the supply and promoting fur- 

 ther the application of lime as a means of 

 fertilizing lands already in a state of culti- 

 vation, and of converting others out of cul- 

 tivation into pasture. This might be accom- 

 plished, and I hope and believe there wiU 

 in due time be a mode of introducing this 

 valuable, and what ought to be a cheap 

 manure, in localities which Providence has 

 furnished with abundance of limestone on 

 the one hand, and kUn-coal to burn the raw 

 material on the other. By some such measures 

 on the part of inviduals or in concert with 

 others, as that contemplated soon after the 

 accession to his title and estates by the late 

 Duke of Devonshire, whose agents obtained 

 a private Act of Parliament empowering the 



