Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-06-02
rroIn 81. Nem York Plow.
(DoW, JR.

Lime Is one Of the most abundant sub
stances in Enthusiastically a. carbonate,
consisting of 564 parts of carbonate, and
Asa of carbonic ascid, in 100 of the min
ersl In burning, the acid escapes in the
form of steam. 1t is then quick lime.
After exposure to the atmosphere, it alb
serbs water, Stacks, and falls into an APP
parent dry powder it is then hydrate of
lime. and is in the form in which it is
generally used for agricultural purposes.
It is the most valuable, when used direct
ly after it has fallen to powder. If long
exposed to rain and deWs before being
spread upon the land, it loses great
portion of its fertilizing powers, which
principally consists in its action upon ye-
getable matters, causing them to deeom-
pose, and its neutralising power upon
acids. which abound in some soils.
The QUANTITY OF LIME TO THE ACRE
In Great Britain from 100 to 400 bushels
are applied at once, at intervals of ten,
fifteen, orninetsen years-thS term which
soils run. In this country, the most COM
mon practice is to apply 80 or 40 bushels
once in three years, which il the prefera-
BILE mode. We have seen it applied with
good effect, however, at the rate of 800
bushels per acre. This was upon very
stiff, cold clay. Three hundred bushels
would be about ten tons to the acre Ten
inches depth of soil, would weigh about
1000 tons. That would give one per
cent. of lime. A case is reported in Eng
land, of soil upon which 1919 bushels of
lime had been used, being analysed, which
apparently contained the same component
parts as that along side, which had not
been lined for great number of years.
Yet the lined land produced 90 tons of
turnips to the acre, while the unlimsd
portion only produced two tons, tops and
all. This was upon red sandstone land.
One of the effects of lime is, it gives the
soil power to absorb ammonia from the
atmosphere, and retain that which is dis
engaged by the decomposition of regsta-
bic matter and manure in the soil. Hence
the Importance of applying lime with
green crops, or using coarse manure With
the lime.
INDICATIONS OF WANT OF LINE IN THE
Soil, may be seen in heavy crops of straw,
light crops of grain, and in root crops
where they seem to run to fingers and
seed. Experiments should be made by
every farmer with lime, upon various
crops, in all his fields, to ascertain uheth-
er lime would be beneficial to him. Very
few places will be found where it will not
be so.
To APPLY LINE TO THE Soil, spread it
evenly upon crop of clover about to be
plowed under, or SOW it upon the surface
with wheat, and harrow thoroughly. 1t
should never be combined with manure,
unless the whole is Immediately plowed
in.
70 WHAT Soil IS LIME APPLICABLE p
Every clay soil, every pesty soil. and er-
cry soil in which vegetable fibre does not
readily decay, because that is sign that
it contains some antiseptic acid, which
prevents decay. This is the ease in peat
beds and swamps. Sandy, graTelly, or
thin soils, may be overturned and injured;
because, in causing the decay of yegeta-
BILE, it sets free the ammonia, the very
substances of fertility required. To pre-
vent this, more food must be given for
the lime to act upoa. No farmer, who
knows what the action of lime is, upon all
soils, will ever do without it, as an acces-
sary to his manure. 1t is component
part of all crops grown by the farmer.
When applied to land which had not
borne wheat for many years, it has at
once restored it to fertility for that crop.
Where it has failed once to remuneratc
the farmer using it, it has proved of the
greatest benefit hundred times.
UsR OF LINE WHIP EAT.-The slow de-
composition of peat is an objection to its
use. By the term, we mean all swamp
muck, partaking more or less of that char
actsr. All peat contains resinous matter,
which prevents decomposition. By add
soap, and the fibre then decays as rapidly
as any other vegetable substance.
LINE IN THE So1L.-Many farms which
once produced good crops of wheat, be-
cause there was lime enough in the soil
to supply the requisite quantity to the
grain, have ceased to be productive
They still produce a large growth of straw,
but not remunerating crop of grain. In
Iome instances, such lands have been re-
stored to their former fertility without APP
plying bushel oflime, Do you ask why?
Simply by blowing deeper. In the hard,
untouched and Hne1hausted subsoil, there
was plenty oflime lying hid, which only
wanted stirring up and exposing to the
action of the atmosphere. and bringing
within reach of the roots of the plants, to
produce the same effect originally derived
from the top soil before it wa. exhausted.
Our constant advice will be to use lime,
plo" deep subsoil and draw stiff lands,
increase your crops, and grow rich.
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