| Show USE or LIME IN im agri AGnI agriculture CULTURE lime Is mistaken 5 ns as a manure it is riot not so plants contain lime but the 7 use of it in agriculture Is not properly a manure but it aiji Is a decomposer of vegetable matter and manufacturer i of manure thus wood Is rendered dust by ime riney and fitted f as food for plants it requires pounds of water to dissolve one pound of lime however minute the quantity of lime in iti soils the plants will find all that Is required in their structure turnips need lime yet they are sa to 97 0 parts of water hence the quantity of I 1 ime lime must be very small it plays the part of forming all the salts required by plants it will at phosphorus for food for growing plants free chlorine Is 13 seized hold of by lime in the soil where it Is used largely upon soils full of am ammonia montay it does more harm barm than good goody because it sets the ammonia free hence nence it should never be used upon madare madure heaps pro fessor mapes |
