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Otago Witness, Issue 2051, 15 June 1893, Page 4

Business Uotices. o w Says Professor VOELCKER, Chemist to Royal Agricultural Society:/^i AS LIME, like Quicklime, discharges the four following 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 hy 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 of plant food in the soil. 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 mtist 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. 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. ; GAS LIME should not be applied when freßh from the retorts. We have FOE 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 converting the sulphuret of calcium into gypsum. 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. ; • pbige: Single Bag, 2s 6d ; Ton lots, 17s 6d ; Five Tons, 14s ; and Ten-ton lots and over, 12s 6d per ton— tags 6d extra. Net Cash. DELIVERY ON TRUCKS, WINGATUI, NEAR MOSGIEL. SEED MERCHANTS,

THOS. PATBRSON & 00. FRUIT AND PRODUCE AGENCY, MANSE STREET, DUNEDIN, (Establiahed Dunedin 1879), KecelTM Consignments of Locally-grown, Ta* manlan, Australian, and Fijian FRUIT. Auo HOGS, BUTTER, CHEESB, BACON, and othei FARM PRODUCE. Id PLANTING SEASON, 1893 ! DURING the 43 YEARS which this business has been established, no expense has been spared in placing on the market Fruit and other trees which have been found suitable and profitable for New Zealand culture. The Largest and Most Varied Nursery Stock in New Zealand. All the leading kinds of Fruit trees, Forest and Ornamental trees, Hedge plants, and Shelter trees— all grown at an altitude of 500 ft above sealeVel without the least protection from the severest gales, thus making them perfectly hardy for planting in any situation. SEND FOR PRICE CATALOGUES, (Post Free to any Address). GEORGE MATTHEWS, SEED WAREHOUSE : Moray Place ; NURSERIES : Hawthorn Hill, Mornington.