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AGRICULTURE 99

ON THE USE AND MISUSE OF LIME, WITH SOME

OBSERVATIONS AND ANIMADWERSIONS ON OTHER PARTS OF FARMING.

By Mr. H. Verral,

OF NEWICK, NEAR LEWES, SUSSEX.

Lone before my residence in a country» vil: lage, I observed, with much surprise,: the pro- digious quantities of lime made: for agricultural purposes; and it has since been‘my. duty, as well as choice, to scrutinize this abundant and almost indiscriminateiuse. If‘take a view of lands, the properties of which‘are diametrically opposite, composed of materials widely differing, I see lime the favourite manure:—sandy, clayey, andthe more rich and’ fertile hazely, as well as the extremely poor soil, composed of mere:un- fruitful earth, blended with poisonous. particles ofiiron, If, inthe preparation: of lime, it were possible to be at less’ expence,and accomplished without the consumaption of such Vast quantities of wood,(now much wanted for fuel;) and farther, if some substitute could‘not be found atia less expence, the business, I think, might as well be left were‘it is;—but when we see the little far-

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