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mer, with all other disadvantages, harrassing himself, his men and cattle, and exhausting all his present cash, and, after all, procuring a scanty crop, it surely behoves some one to venture an opinion. When I say the little farmer, I would mean the man whose lack of competence compels him to toil in his rented acre, and whose simplicity, industry, and patience, merit some recompence; to such, poor small farms are generally let, the rich catch hold of lands already replete:with goodness and fertility, in want.of little management, and whose claim to merit, unhappily, in this age of monopoly, arises more from their‘wealth, pride, and power, than inge- nuity, industry, and science:

Books treating scientifically on agriculture are of little, if any utility, to the small wealdish farmer. For want of education, his capacity, ex- panded only in.a very limited degree, is not ca- pable of understanding the improving lessons genius exhibits, because necessarily loaded. with terms appendant to the different branches of science, and requisite for explanation and in- struction. To present, then, a uniform scientific view of farming to the public eye, if I was capa- ble, would be useless to the many: my wish is to explain, in an intelligible way, my opinion of the right, as well as of the wrong use of lime; and, in some instances, to recommend a more