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pleaſe, are at no pains to keep the“level for the water open, and they diſpoſe of the rubbiſh in a manner the eaßeſt for themſelves.“In this manner the quarry is, in a great meaſure, ruined; the ſtones are now procured with difficulty, and a great part of the ſtratum is loſt for ever. It often happens that the public ſuffers by the improper condudt of a few.indi- viduals. In that caſe ſome meaſure ſhould be adopted to de- prive them of a right they ſo wantonly abuſe: or oblige them to uſethat right ſo as to anſwer the original intention, without any material injury to ſociety. Lime as a manure, being one of the moſt powerful and extenſive agents in agri- culture, is a great ſource of national proſperity. The proper management of limeſtone quarries in all their varieties, and the various methods of preparing the lime for the ſoil, come therefore under the particular inſpeCtion of the Board of A- griculture.

This manure is laid upon all kinds of ſoils in the county. The effets of the firſt application of it are generally very great. The quantity uſed is from 25 to 70 bolls of ſhells Per acre. The beſt farmers commonly make compoſts of ditch-earth, ſcrapings of roads, rotten vegetables, peat moſs, and other ſpare ſoil, to which they add lime in the propor- tion of one, to three or four of the ſoil, tc. The heap after 1ying two or three months, is turned over once, and ſome- times twice; and afterwards applied as a top drefling upon graſs lands, or a manure for barley. The heap 13 general: 1y prepared on the head lands, or adjoining to the farm- yard, where the materials ca2 be moſt eafily colleCed.

Dung. Farm-yard dung is raiſed in conſiderable quanti- ties. Horſes and cattle are generally houſed in the winter ſeaſon: and a few farmers fodder their cattle in a ſiraw- yard, where large quantities of manure are made, eſpecilal- 1y in thoſe farms which abound in ſtraw*. At the end ot

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X Corns, almoſt every where in the county, are cut remarkably low» and the Nubble is never raked or chopped for litter.