Lime As A Soil Improver

lite icliigaíi vgu& OU gardens are frequently unpoduotive througb bein manured year after year with the same kind oí' ïnimure and growing the same crops. Iu suoh cases Uic regulables are rank in growth and itl florud. Pot itoes and other roots watery and liub'e to disease, and peas nd beans unproductive, and caulflowers .ind cabbages subject to club disease. - When sucli is the case, uso no manure for a couple of years. Tho flrst spare time you get trench it, two spits dcep, if the g.ound will allow of it, and thoroughly mix with the earth, as you turn it over, a good dressing of fresh slaeked umi), the fresher the better. My plan is when the the top spit is thrown to the bottom of tlio trench, to throw over the hofjfcne and fork it in, and to repeat the of lime over the lower spit thrown to the surfuce. Employee! in this way, lime acts as a complete renovator of ohj and vcrinaiiured eoils as the produce afterwarcla will show The second yyar I repeat the lime dressing, (about half the quantity of the first year,) forking it in insteatl of disrging the ground, as by that means tho lime becotnes more cornpletoly mixed with the soil. I add also a aurTicing of road surapinnfs, the ground in heavy or iiujliucil to he so. By these rear.s, irivintr '"up mainire for two years I have sucueodod in bringing old garden soil, which would positively grow nothing well, mtei a ti rat class soil, prodncing good orapa and of the best