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that there should be an arrangement for slaking lime in con- 
nexion with every agricultural limekiln. As far as my experi- 
ence goes, the water should not be thrown in quantities over the 
lime, but the lime should be placed in baskets, and dipped into 
a reservoir of water, allowing sufficient time for it to take up as 
much water as it can absorb, which experience will soon decide. 
It should then be removed, emptied out upon a dry bed, and 
carefully covered over, so as to exclude the air. 
3rd. It would be very desirable also to decide, by a course 
of experiments, the best way of applying the slaked lime to the 
land. I think that the lime should be in a state of powder, but 
not sufficiently dry to fly about ; that it should be placed in a 
Tiopper carried upon suitable wheels, the hopper having a com- 
munication with a cylinder pierced with holes in the upper 
part. These holes should be made adjustable in size, and 
suitable wings or guides should be fixed on the outside of 
the cylinder to distribute the lime, A fan, fixed to revolve in 
this cylinder, turned by the revolution of the carrying wheels, 
would, in revolving, blow the lime-dust through the holes in 
"the circumference of the cylinder. 
There are various other points connected with the application 
of lime as a manure, such as the proportion in which it may 
be advantageously used in connection with other manures; the 
chemical action of lime upon soils, either alone or combined 
"with other manures ; and many others, each of which would 
require a separate essay to develope it properly. 
VII. — Report on some Features of Scottish Agriculture. By 
H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S. 
The following Report may be regarded as a continuation of the 
series commenced eighteen months ago witTi descriptions of 
selected English farms. It was considered by the Council that 
the Essays on the Agriculture of the several English counties, 
already published in the ' Journal,' might be usefully supple- 
mented by detailed descriptions of successful practice in different 
districts, whether at home or abroad. The Members of the 
Society have already been enabled to contrast the methods pur- 
sued on characteristic farms in some of the English counties, 
with the various aspects of Belgian farming, and with the modes 
of cultivation brought to light by the Farm-prize competition in 
connection with the Oxford meeting. The next step in the 
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