4 woo. | 
‘From thefe circumftances, I think Tratts of indifferent land may be found — 
myfelf jultified in doubting the truth of in all large chai and the wealth of the 
the principle alumed by your corref- proprieto e fund of the fociety, 
pondent, T. And am inclined to be- ould ultimate! y be benefited, though 
lieve quick-lime to be rather anti-putre- mmediate pron could net rationaily 
fcent, than feptic. . i 
Quick-lime laid on Jand muft, from — 
its cautticity have fome effect, ‘he heat r breathes a liberal {pirir, 
‘it communicates during the operation of pom es literary entertainment and 
flaking, may probably deftroy a con- extended utility, i am, fir, 
fiderablegnuiiber of infects, and by iff Your obedient humble fenpapt, 
créafaollte warmth of the foil may pro- 
mote vegetation, and haften the evapo- Ea, 7 Aug.1796. ? . ‘TP. 
ration of redundant moifture: but thefe , a 
effects can on For the Editor of the ay Magaer ae 
pletely flak S 
palpable powder came SIR, 
pulverized lime-fione un AM pleafed to fee the bien of Agri= 
in this ftate, I prefume, that its p culture introduced into your Mi Bale ' 
anent utility 1 is moft obvious, and tt and if you think the following ob- 
aployed it adds to the quantity) feryations worth your infertion, they are 
_and by being intimately mi with, at your fervice. ie 
, leffens its tenacity, and prevents its — In the practice of the old fy em of ’ 
confolidating into a mafs impenetrable to hufbandry, there is nothing more nu 
the roots of vegetables; and whatever oustothe public, or detrimental to t 
be its chemical qualities o sombinations, farmer, than that of fallowing land iP a a 
the ultimate: effects. will I believe, be crop... Lhe lofts of produce to th, 
the fame. munity from this caufe is prodigio 
Gravel, fand, Se, ek is, therefore, well worth the attentl 
foffil coal, and the feraping rs ( the better “informed hufbandn 
bogies nearly spina ae - the philanthropift to ren 4 
isp 
/ 
Lime... Fallowing, an ujex;s Praéfice. me 






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accefs in the profecution 





temporary: when c 
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ner of their operation. In ftiff lands benevolent Creator has fo bountit ally 
are of ufe in _loofening the clogs 1 vided for our futtenance, that the 
/ fruétifyin powers of the earth would 
af ge eae its eer gt 



Picante: wath lefs ditiiculty. 
The great objeét with the farmer 
fhould be, to bring his land as much | 
po‘ble into the fate of a well- oy | 
garden. The garden ves th 0 
no reft, his fpade and eep it in al 

ee 
Mapp ae ee means to 
‘the hve we prevent the 









moft perpetual motion, and he replenithes quality” of from being exhautted, 
it occahonally from his melon and cu. te thofe perfons who plead for the 
cumber beds, with ftable manure neatly eifity of a fallow, inorder to clear 

or completely rotten. Fs 
_Laboured difquifitions of 
ation of vegetables, or th 
a from couch-grafs, and other weeds, 
ithe organiz- 1 would fay, it is the plea of indole a a5 
as the whole benefit they wifh n 
y be ob d without the lofs acrop, of 
.induftry and a fmall expen I {peak 
wees Teena a ile proper. manage- 
wkiilfully appropriating the 
: a produce as will only oc- 
ll allow, and a ipace of time as not to im- 
9 thofe who cue the neceflary work of cleaning it. 
cannot be Lait year, I took in hand_from a te- 
lure of ex- nant, afield of fevenacres, aftera wretched 













ae ascitr {peculatior 
are qualified for it, and 
efféntially injured by th 



periments. crop of wheat: this land was covered 
, men and gentlemen of large ow ith couch grafs and’wild oats : the I 
lande ‘property, and t agricultura oy foil was of a deep loam.—dAs joon as the 
rs 
“feanty erop was cleared, I mowed the 
the nation, cannot adopt ¢ o —fobbee, and ploughed it lightly. This I 
likely to be beneficial to t h . as repeated at four different intervals, each 
the appropriation of a. wantity of land, ploughing being deeper than the former, 
to the fole purpofe of experiment. aking care to keep open every furrow 
4 T3 for 

focieties eftablifhed in different ee of 






