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of great importance for allowing the fibres to find 

 their way, and it decomposes whatever organized 

 substances of any kind are in the land, and renders 

 them fit for nourishment to growing vegetables. 

 Lime should, like dung, be mixed with several 

 times its own bulk of earth, after being slaked, but 

 should never be mixed in the same compost heap 

 with the dung, as in such circumstances a certain 

 chemical action takes place between them, equally 

 destructive to the qualities peculiar to each. Whe- 

 ther the lime should be given in a quick or mild 

 state, will depend on the quality of the land, and 

 the reader is referred for information on this point 

 to the abstract which has been given of Sir Henry 

 Steuarf s " Method of giving immediate effect to 

 Wood." The lime should be put upon the ground 

 in precisely the same manner as has just been di- 

 rected with regard to the dung ; and the same ob- 

 servation holds with respect to any foreign earth 

 that may be applied for the purpose of deepening 

 the soil. 



As to the trenching of the ground, it will in 

 general be found most economical to slump it off, 

 at so much per acre, to such labourers as are accus- 

 tomed to this kind of work. It would be highly 

 injudicious, however, to trust them with the put- 



