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Lime As Manure

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
March
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mr. Towers, in The Farmcrrt Magazine, tbus suras up the qualities of (juick-lime : - 1. If applied to green vegetables, quito hot iroin the kiln, it will destroy ihc tissue and carbonizo the substance, I itse'f being brought into a stute ol mild limo or chalk. 2. As powdered or air-slncked lime it will directly kill hlugs and moluscious vermin, acttng by its peculiar attraction for water. 3. As an alkali it will neutralizo aeids of every description, aud henee is peculiarly useful f dusted over trees inf'ested with lichens. 4. lts afiinity for bumio acid is predomitiant, as we have eeen ; and therefore, it becomes a specilic remedy wherever there is a redundante ol' inert decnyed vegetable reinains. 5. According to high chemical autliority, it is capable of liberating potasea irom clay and granife rocks, and of setting itat liberty irom its coinbination of Üiut as an insoluble silicato of potassa. 6. It is a mistake to suppose that quioklime rendors vegetable aud animal remaina soluble. These substances are partially soluble, as we have eeen in the alkalis; but tho threo precipítate formed by the addition of linie is not soluble, or, at any rate, is so far fixed it will remain long quieseent in the sround, from which it can only be taken in„very small quantities, and by elow degrees aecording to the capauiiy of the vegetable for suuh food. Lime, then acts as an antidoto of redundant humous matter, attracting and fising its acid as an ionocuous húmate.

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Michigan Argus