Show lime as a fertilizer lit in reference to the llie use of lime as I 1 fertilizer liser there is a great difference of opinion among practical sl farmers ft hose opinions are to be received with nith respect rc but this that whereas formerly little lime was used iu ILI great quon quantities at tho the present little comparatively little of it is employed ploy iu agriculture the alic action is is ed to be upon organic matter already in tile soil and to make this more itkor e easily obtained by the gro ino ing crop it thus adds nothing e to the soil only enables tile the crop to get out more of what is there ahn is the llie present larent belief in reference to it it may ile be seen been flout this ibis that little lime may inny tic lie used on limestone soil as well as any ally other oilier and also that the llie use of pulverized sed lin burnt limestone can be of no alic is as it has no gocr to art act upon organic 0 inetter alo lime long 0 burnt and ekpo expo bedo tile llie air and rain so that it is lar oly transformed back to the can lie of but little value for it is only the caustic lime it which can call let act upon the lie organic matter to change it but there are arc soul some e conditions of tile soil which are toy by lime one olic of these is where the llie land is heavy with human acids these the alkaline lime neu tr tralies alles and thus im improves tile soils also ISO soils which conhain silicate of po potash tash if limed filled the silica unites with alic lime settin setting ri the potash free in the form of a carbonate one of the mot st valued of plant foods such oil sarc benefited by lime so 10 may I 1 alio io alluvial ind and granite soils lie ile in which hialit hi clit chereka ia a natural adert deficiency ejeller of I 1 ll 11 linie me 0 S G anun gnun r in JV Z L |