South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-11-14

of the leaves and roots, and lay it in
dry airy place for few days.-ther
remove it to a cool scellar, where i
will be quite secure from frost, ant
pack II up with sand, putting layers o
celery and sand Observation-Disclosures
Gar. Mag.
From tie Baltimore Farmer & Gardener
LIME AS A MANURE.
The efficacy Of this mineral as a
manure, is bsgiaing to excite very gen.
eral attention. The success which has
uniformly attended its application to
almost all kinds of soils, EFFORTS con-
fsssions Of its utility from many who,
until recently, had but little, if any,
faith in its meliorating powers. AS
there seems to be universal desire to
obtain information upon the subject OF
its specific virtues, we will endeavor
to give something like an abstract view
Of them, and we know not how we
can better effect our object, than by
availipg oursslf of condensation Of
the luminous paper upon the subject,
submitted by Mr.. Browne, Of Derby,
England, which may be found in the
transactions Of the Society of Arts
He asserts
1st. That recent vegetables, as clover,
laid on heaps and stratified with fresh
lime, are quickly decomposed, even in
few days. The heat occasioned by the
moisture Of the vegetable uniting with
the lime, he supposes, quickens the fer
mentation of the vegetable juices, and
produces charcoaiin consequence ofcom-
bustion similar to that frequently produ-
ced in new hay stacks, which, ifany air
be admitted, burst into flame.
2dly. Lime for many months contin-
ues to attract moisture from the air or
earth, which it deprives, he supposes of
carbonic acid, and then suffers it to ex-
hale again, as is seen on the plastered
walls of new houses. On this account it
must be advantageous when mixed with
dry or sandy soils, as it attracts moisture
from the air above, or the earth beneath;
and this moisture is then observed by
the lymphatics of the roots of vegetabl
y 3dly. BY mixing lime with clays it is
believed to make them less cohesive, and
thus to admit oftheir being easily pene-
trated by vegetable fibres.
4lhly. A MIXTURE OF lime with clay des.
troys its super-abundancy of acid, if such
exists, aud BY uniting with ii converts it
into gypsum.
5thly. When lime is mixed with
compost of soil and manure, which is in
the state Of generating nitrous acid it ar
rests the acid as it forms, and produces
a calcareous nitro, and thus prevents both
its exhalation and easy elutriaton.
And lastly, fresh lime destroys worms.
snails, and other insects, with which it
happens to come in contact and with
which almost every soil abonnds.
These are among the chemical effects
oflime, and its practical operation and
beneficial results in the increase of the
quantities of the products of the earth,
are equally as astonishing as they are
salutary. Lands which for years have
yielded from to 10 bushels of wheat,
have. by the application of lime, the
ploughing in of a single crop Of clover,
and proper observance of the rotation
system, been SO far meliorated as to yield
from 20 to 80 bushels of good heavy
wheat to the acre.
The life of a soldier. struck by light
ming at St. Petersburg, has been saved
by copious bleeding.