Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-06-25

red being considered most profitable for live stock
and a. that late kind, II should DO planted
as possible after the goth of April, that tho crop may
mature Two alter poughings and slight hand weed
g serve 10 cultivate the crop; and its product Mr.
thinks, though without having made any experiment OF
careful esnms'e usually pays the whole expense OF the
Inning He has the bulk OF the peas gathered by hand
but not clio ely; and the remaining pods aud vines are
eaten on the ground by cattle. The peas are partl,
INTO meal and mixed with other food for mules iO
which use they are much valued. Mr. l.. has com
pared the products OF with equal land,
supposes that more bushels per would be o5ianst
ffom
MIR. l.. does not think that a heavier cover of lime
would be much more effective. He showed the ground
where an experiment had been carefully made hi.
question: anu which Is still trial. Three years ago
certain space marked out through equal land was lined
with second cover equal the first aud usual quantity
whch mad been applied to the field four years earlier
anu was followed by manure from the stable and farm
yard, the year alter the first Lining. he field is
now IN wheat aud the growth excellent ghout bu,
unequal and the part doubly lined percepbly SUI
Peror 10 That ON either side. Still he expects different
result on soil less light and applied his last lime as Sc
conu anu lighter dressing to the sest loan,
70 me iighest land that had yet received He has
onnd mat the ghest soils here, and the scst among
the clay soils OF his farms in Gloucester are neither so
inueh improved by lining soils Of medium te xure
Inc whole expense oil lining has not been estimat ted
oy Mr. L., nor has the benefit from lime alone be
taned He always covers with putrescent manure the
whole oil the previous years lined land and sows all in
clover The durable benefit obtained from the manure
in part and the whole value derived from the clover are
indirectly tho effects of the lime. The expense bears
so'y PropoTNOn 10 the pront The only difficulty
mng arises from the scanness OF the supply of shells
and the fear that they will be still more scarce as their
use extends Small vessels bring cargoes of oyster
shells and sell them ION boa) at 81 l2 cents the hogs
head The labor OF landing them additional expense
TO the farmer.
Gypsum had been frequently tried on clover as well a,
other crops before LINING and with little or no benefit II
has not been tried since lining, but he is now about 10
make the experiment again.
No value Is attached TO the causc quality of the lime
and indeed supposed TO have lost that quality by
posture under the usual reatnent before the
crop OF peas begins TO grow. Ten or twelve days are
the spreading and narrowing in of the ime and the plant
ing oil the peas When peas planted imme after
the spreading, their growth thought TO show some
injury from the remaining causcity OF the lime Sill
Mr. L. is not satisfied, that equal quantity of mild cal
careous earth in any other form, would serve as well
lime prepared by burning Without the correct
ness oil that deduction from his opinions and he
prefers adherng TO the practice which experience has
proved to be highly beneficial and sufficiently cheap
banks oil FOSSIL shells are his land, than
eight or ten miles distance by water carriage
AS one fourth of the farm has yet been lined the
general improvement by that still in progress
anu the increase OF crops may be fairly supposed to be vet
nch below what lew more of the practice
VIII exhb-W hatever increase of product been OBJ
ained almost entirely owing the lime considering its
indirect as well as its direct benefits Without lime there
was (and could beg no improvement from clover and all
the purescent manure used before lining seemed merely
10 keep the products OF the farm from decreasing This
opinion requires no stronger proof than the following table
years before lining begun and when the farm was
under the regular three shift rotation. The ulness and
accuracy OF MIR. Lewss diary, has enabled him 10 fur
nsh me with this statement.