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hitherto deemed impracticable. By com- 
Dining thefe two experiments with all 
their advantages and difadvantages, we 
may fairly eftimate an acre of tran{plant- 
ed wheat at thirty-two bufhels, a crop 
conliderably above the average of this 
country. f 
Note. This valuable paper was com- 
municated to the Agricultural Society 
of Manchefter, at their gencral meeting, 
on the roth of Oétobex, for which Dr. 
Hunter received the thanks, &c. of the 
fociety. We are indebted for its com- 
munication to the Monthly Magazine, to 
Mr. B. CROCKER, the fecretary of that 
fociety. 

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0 the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
your correfpondeat T. and T. P. in 
the Third and Eighth Numbers, upon 
the fubjeét of Lime, principally enquire, 
whether it has {eptic or antileptic power; 
however interefting this may be, or what- 
éver confequences in general may depend 
on that power, yet, as to its ufe in agri- 
culture, it appears not to be a chief point. 
The cbfervation of T. upon the lime’s 
power of deftroying alum, and giving 
out fixed air, arc: ingenious, and, as to 
the alum, well founded; the fixed air 
may alfo be ufeful to plants. 
In order to improve any thing, it is 
neceflary to know wherein it is deficient, 
and then to find the fubftance which can 
beft remedy the defect. Let us bring the 
foils which feem to require lime, and the 
lime itfelf to this tet. Lime is merely 
calcareous earth, deprived of its fixed 
air: this it has a great tendency to re- 
vain from every fubfance within its 
reach, with the affiftance of water ; and 
this action on other bedies is what we in 
general cailits caufticity. When it has 
regained its fixed air, it falls to pieces, 
and again becomes calcareous earth, and 
is faid to be flaked. So that lime applie 
in agriculture is only to be confidered as 
calcareous earth, in a convenient form 
for uniting with the foil; and that it 1s not 
of nfe until it is faked. We find, by ex- 
perience, when we lay lime on dry- foils, 
till there comes rain enough to flake it, 
it is not beneficial. Lime, then, will enly 
be ufetul where there is a deficiency of 
calcareous earth; as in the foils T.P. 
mentions, viz. ftiff lands: here lime is 
applied to fupply that defect of calcareous 
earth; but as there is alfo in this foila 
deficiency of the fandy part, this muft 
be remedied by the epplication of fand, 
Lime as a Mantre.. ++ Abufes of the Law. 
[ Novy. 
gravel, coal-afhes, fweepings of roads, . 
&c. &c.* Upon hot burning fands (here 
called fcald:) and, indeed, upon all fandy 
lands, lime is fuccefsfully ufed to make 
up the calcareous part ; but as the tex+ 
ture of thefé lands is imperfeét, clay 
fhould be alfo applied. Gravelly foils 
thould be treated in the fame manner as 
the laft. 
In this way the judicious farmer may, 
in general, in a great meafure, remedy 
the grand defeéts in moft foils; and the 
rfecéts of lime, clay, &c. being better 
known, they may be ufed with greater 
certainty. A/l other manures fhould be- 
in fome degree analyfed, at leaft fo as to 
difcover their chief ingredient ;. then the 
foils which are deficient in this ingre- 
dient may fafely be treated with the fub- 
fiance that contains it in the greateft 
proportion. 
Thefe hints appear to me to be fup- 
ported by faéts; I fhould, nevertheleis, 
be glad to hear any objections that may 
be made to them, through the medium 
of your very ufeful Publication. You 
will excufe any inaccuracies im iftyle 
from A NorFro ik FarMeR. 
Norfolk, 0.7.7, 1796- 

Yo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the Sixth Number of your Magazine 
one of your correfpondents, who fub- 
{cribes himfelf J. W. F. recommends the 
eftablifhment of a fociety ** to ftop the 
farther progrefs of profeffional impofi- 
tion”’ in the law; and there is much rea- 
fon to believe that fuch a fociety might 
be very ufeful. It is certain, that there 
are great numbers of well-intentioned, 
but uninformed, perfons who are much 
injured by fome. legal practitioners. 
Another of your correfpondents, who 
fizns himfelf J. W. has obferved, that 
‘“‘ it is not one of-the leaft diftinguifhing 
‘© EXCELLENCES OF THE PRESENT 
“ perGN, that the profeifion of the law 
‘has been rendered more refpectable, 
‘and a lefs object of popular odium, 
‘‘ than it was formerly ;’’ and he adds 
that ‘¢ the eitablifhment of the judges on 
“ a different footing, was a circumiftance 
“ of eminent confequence to the liberty 
“ of the fubje&+.” I am not quite fure 


* The gravelly limeftone which T. men- 
tions, would alone be a good manure for this 
foil, as the form of that would tend to open 
the foil, at the fame time.that it fupplied it 
with calcareous eart). 
+ Monthly Mag. vol. I. p. 292. 
that 
