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572, OF QUICK-LIME

even fatal to the poor animals*;—- a me- thod of preventing or remedying that in- convenience will therefore be of ufe.

The beft methed of preventing any in- convenience of this fort, is to fpread the lime, when in its powdery ftate, upon the . field, as evenly as poffible,—and allow it

to lie in that flate for fome time, before you begin to plough it.—If the lime has been in fine powder, it will have BecOine serfectly effete in a week or fo; after which time it will be as little corrofive as any kind of common earth, fo that the horfes may work among it with perfect fafety. —But if it has been fuffered to run into clods before it was ee thefe, if. not broken{mall, will be long: in abforbing their air,. and, of confequence, will re- nain longer in an acrid ftate, fo that the ploughing may, in that cafe, be deferred fo a.week or fo longer; nor will it be even then fo perfe= fafe as the other.

But if it becomes neceflary. at any time

to plough in the lime immediately after it

* J have known feveral horfes atu: lly killed by this means, and others fo difabled as never. be perfectly

= J well afterwards.

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