The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1845-02-13

For he American Fagmrr.
MR. RDI.oR.-The following i sub
miited in reply 10 the queries az your cor
respondent. Virginis;" lift ssail IN sin
gle case only cause Two blades Of 2, ass %
grow, where one only grew lormerly,
The writer viii regard himself As amply
compensated.
|. !" What effect would be produced BY
The application Of lime on Tie surface Of
limestone lands!"
Precisely The same as upon any other
similarly constituted soil. where lime.
stone do not exist-because ANALYSIS rar.-
" shows more than trare OF lime in the
soil Of limestone lands; il cannot ascend
from The rocks benfa'h, and where the
rock rises above the surface lis disillpgra-
lion al most could only have local effect,
circumscrihed by The extent 10 which tile
soil around il would be moved By cnIliva-
lion. Reason and analysis both sustain
this view Of the subject. Exhalalions
alone. &c they had The power could be The
bearers Of lime from tie rocks beneath to
the soil Above; their agency in promoting
vegetation, like many other " lowly things
of earth," lapprehend have not been pro
perry appreciated. This. however. is To-
reign 10 the subject.
2. by successive cropping, The lime,
| understand, is extracted from the sur
face soil!"
Carbonate Of Lime, common lime) is
nearly an insolnhle salt, i requires about
700 grains Of pure water TO dissolve
grain 81 lime. but il dissolves readily in
water charged with carbonic acid, which
il receives from every shower Of rain.
fall Of snnw. ard the dews in small
quantity. and portion Of il is thus render
ed soluble which enters into vegetation,
passes of in the excess Of water, sinks in
TO the earth. &c. The process Of exhaus-
lion however is flow one; O barrels oil
corn per acre without manure, was obtain
ed his season, of Of field under my OBJ.
servaiion, which had been lined GO bush
els 10 the acre 10 years ago and not i'm
proved beyond the influence Of the limt
since. Without the lime il would have
been unproduciive All doubt about iht
lrsrsnafenc~ &c Az :..r---.---..s --sii -
banished from the country few years
hence.
/ 3. would the application or it, in ;
powdered state. tothe surface Of .urh land
Qimesione) be beneficial"
BY burning or calcination il loses its car
bo, ic acid, which il receives az in slnwl!
fr, m the atmosphere, rain, snow, &c.
being applied 10 land som after burning
in its canstic state, i, acts powerfully up
on the vegetable and ether matters in tn
soil, being however in the gradual receiI
Of its proportion Of carbonic acid agalr
, il becomes restored 10 its original ele
ments, and subsequently, exer,s a milde
action in tie soil: such as il would hav
: excrted had it been applied in ,ll
, powdered state" TO be equally e
fec,ual. however, in the powdere
state" it would have to be equally as fnt
as when burned, unless larger quantit
/ wasapplied. Great care ought TO be take
;. To spread il over the land in the finest POI
+ sible state Of division, as upon that cond
r ton mainly depends its usefulness as a
e imprnver of suils.
!. 4. In what quantity.
# Forty bushels 10 the acre. repeat in
n or years and he governed by cireun
= stances afterward. Experience will soc
n come 10 your aid. ID. w. n.
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