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Otago Witness, Issue 2046, 11 May 1893, Page 4

Business JSTotice*. , Says Professor VOELCKER, Chemist to Eoyal Agricultural Society:/~1 AS LIME, like Quicklime, discharges the four f ollcwing important functions : 1. GAS LIME exercises a beneficial mechanical effect upon land, by rendering stiff, heavy, clay land more porous, friable, and consequently better adapted for cultivation, and by consolidating, on the other hand, light, sandy soils. 2. It supplies food to plants. . : . GAS LIME not only supplies sufficient lime to plants, but also sulphuric acid, a combination not present in any quantity of quicklime. For leguminous crops, such as peas and beans, for clover \ and other crops specially benefited by Bulphate of lime or gypsum, Gas Lime, when obtainable, is certainly preferable to quicklime as a manure. # 3 GAS LIME, in virtue of its alkaline properties, exercises a beneficial effect upon the organic matters in the soil. In this respect its action is similar to that of quicklime. Both facilitate the destruction of organic matters, the remains of previous crops, and their conversion into plant food. » # 4. GAS LIME, like quicklime, has the power of unlocking, so to say, the naturally unavailable mineral stores ot plant food in the soil. o . „ . .„ fi.ii. In many soils, but more especially in clay land, we bad portions of granite and other minerals from which clay has been originally produced, and those minerals are the chief sources from which the necessary amount of alkalies required by plants is furnished. But as their decomposition proceeds slowly, a long time must pass before potash and soda can be rendered soluble, or made available for the use of plants. Gas Lime, like quicklime, materially hastens this decomposition, and thus produces an effect similar to that of a prolonged fallow. GAS LIME beneficially affects both light and heavy lands. GAS LIME is an economical fertiliser. GAS LIME is a useful fertiliser for permanent pasture ; it favours the growth of sweet and nutritious herbage, and destroys the coarser grasses, sorrel, &c.', kills heath, moss, and feather grass. j GAS LIME may be relied onto cure most cases of " finger and toes." When that disease attacks the turnip crop, it is mostly caused through deficiency of lime in the soil. j GAS LIME should not be applied when fresh from the retorts. We have FOR SALE a quantity of GAS LIME which has for TWO YEARS been freely exposed to the action of air and weather, thus rendering it superior to quicklime, and ultimately conyerting the sulphuret of calcium into This GAS LIME, having been put through a disintegrator, is very finely pulverised, and in this respect differs from other kinds, and removes what to many was a serious and almost fatal objection ; and is now in splendid condition for even distribution by machine or otherwise. ; PRICE: Single Bag, 2s 6d ; Ton lots, 17s 6d ; Five Tons, 145, ; and Ten-ton lots and over, 12s 6d per ton— tags 6d extra. Net Cash. DELIVERY ON TRUCKS, WINGATUI, NEJIR MOSGIEL. NIMMO AND BLAIR, . . SEED MERCHANTS,

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