564 OF QUICK-LIME

duce the greateft effe@ at the beginning; becaufe the feparate particles will be at li-

berty to ac&t on.a much greater number o

is

particles of the foil at once, than when it

is lefs perfectly divided.

But if a fufficient quantity of calcareous matter has been applied, when in pretty large maffes, fo as to cover the ground pretty equally; and if thefe lumps continue to diffolve in the foil in al] after-periods, the effe& of this drefling will be much

longer perceived, than that o

a drefsing

of calcareous matter in fine powder, that fhould produce af firft an effe@ equal to this.—Perhaps, in this cafe, the virtue of every particle of the calcareous matter will

come, in time, to produce a full effect upon the foil, and benefit it nearly as much as an equal quantity of very finely powdered

calcareous m

r would have done, ap-

plied at different times. Stone and clay

marles, therefore, are equally efficacious

manures as powdered lime, although more ; Co)

flow in their operation.

But as lime that has been fuffered to run into folid cakes before it is applied to the foil, can neither be properly fpread

upon