has more than
doubled in real value, and he attributes this principally to the use of
lime.

"We lime," he says, "whenever it is convenient, but prefer to put it on
at least one year before plowing the land. We spread from 25 to 40
bushels of lime on the sod in the fall; plant with corn the following
summer; next spring, sow with oats and clover; and the next summer, plow
under the clover, and sow with wheat and timothy. We have a variety of
soils, from a sandy loam to a stiff clay, and are certain that lime will
pay on all or any of them. Some of the best farmers in our County
commenced liming when the lime cost 25 cts. a bushel, and their farms
are ahead yet, more in value, I judge, than the lime cost. The man who
first commences using lime, will get so far ahead, while his neighbors
are looking on, that they will never catch up."

Another correspondent in Hunterdon Co., N.J., writes: "Experience has
taught me that the best and most profitable mode of applying lime is on
grass land. If the grass seed is sown in the fall with the wheat or rye,
which is the common practice with us in New Jersey, as soon as the
harvest comes off the next year, we apply the lime with the least delay,
and while fresh slacked and in a dry and mealy state. It can be spread
more evenly on the ground, and is in a state to be more readily taken up
by the fine roots of the plants, than if allowed to get wet and clammy.
It is found most beneficial to keep it as near the surface of the ground
as practicable, as the specific gravity or weight of this mineral manure
is so great, that we soon find it too deep in the ground for the fibrous
roots of plants to derive the greatest possible benefit from its use.
With this method of application are connected several advantages. The
lime can be hauled in the fall, after the busy season is over, and when
spread on the sod in this way, comes in more immediate contact with the
grass and grass-roots than when the land is first plowed. In fields that
have been limed in part in this manner, and then plowed, and lime
applied to the remainder at the time of planting with corn, I always
observe a great difference in the corn-crop; and in plowing up the
stubble the next season, the part limed on the sod is much mellower than
that limed after the sod was broken, presenting a rich vegetable mould
not observed in the other part of the field."

A farmer in Chester Co., Pa., also prefers to apply lime to newly-seeded