AGRICULTURAL.

VALUE OF LINE IN AGRICULTURE.
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Mr.. EDrToR 1t is said at page 55 of :he Cab
met. Vol 8. that Lime to the amount of 500 bush
els per acre has been laid on land in England, to
manifest advantage while here, co or 50 bushels
have been found too much | in work at
present before me, that in Ireland it is not uncom-


immense crops of potatoes having b1en raised by its
being laid upon strong old lays broken up July
and August. and suffered 10 remain in that state
until p!oughed again in The spliug. Dr., Anderson
says he had experience Of ii in all proportions, from
100 10 above 700 bushels per acre, upon great
rcty of soils, and that lie always round its effect in
promoting th4 fertility of The soil to be in proportion
TO the quanty employed, other circumstances be-
ing alike yet in stance is mentioned in the Not
tinghaln Report, OF $50 bushels having been laid on
an ofcod clay soil, without, any benefit what
ever experiments have also elsewhere been tried
of its application on heavy land extremely reteniive
Of MOISTURE to the extent Of $50 bushels per acre,
which after eight successive years. showed no per-
cepble difference arising from the quantity laid on ::
it has, however, been SO many occasions used at
random, without inquiry being made, or attention
pad 10 the state of the land that without regard 10
these particulars, much money has been useessly
expended, and many attempts at improvement by
it have been rendered unsuccessful. A system
prevails in the cultivation of many estates in various
parts of Eng land, under which the tenants are bound
by their leases to fallow the land at fixed periods,
and 10 dress the fallows with certain quantity of
lime-in some parts of Kent TO the amount of one
hundred bushels per acre-this period occurring
generally every five years. Its greatest value has,
however, been found on healthy moors and wild
mountain land, where, by spreading ilin large guam
titles and permitting it to become washed and grown


in, the most surprising effects have been experien-
ced after some time the heath and coarse herbag
disappears, and the whole surface becomes covered
with fine pile Of grass. consisting of white clover
and other sorts of fine pasture grasses. 1t is labor
lost to lime soils that require draining be this al
ways remembered Farmers Cabinet