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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ...power of any kind of soil, and especially of thin soils. SECT. III. MANURING. MarL--In this county marl has not been tried t any considerable extent; but there is no doubt of its good effect as a manure, and of the application of it. being profitable, where the distance of carriage is not great. A greater quantity of this manure, per acre, than either of lime or of dung, is requisite: --From twenty to thirty double cart loads at least must be given. Its effect is near the same with that of lime; but it may be more lasting than that of an usual application either of lime or of dung, as a greater quantity is applied, and as the substance of which it consists is more gross. Lime.--Burnt and slacked lime, next to dung, is the most general manure in use. It is found to render the land more fertile, and the grain firmer and more productive of meal or flour. If a moderate quantity of dung is applied at the same time, the good effect of the lime is more speedily and fully produced. Lime greatly increases the quantity and improves the quality of pasture. The animals are fond of grazing on lands where it has been applied. The different sorts of clover and rye-grass rye-grass thrive much better on limed than unlimed lands, as do likewise many other small kinds of pasture grasses. The best method of application is to lay it on all kinds of soil when it is in as hot and powdery a state as it can be conveniently wrought. If it is intended to lime summer fallow, the lime ought to be laid on before the last ploughing, and after the land is quite clean; when a single or double turn of the harrows, followed by a moderately light ploughing, will fully answer the purpose of covering it in the soil. Lime should not be covered very deep, as probably some part of its effect ...

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