Liming Land

Southland Times, Issue 10201, 5 July 1889, Page 4

Liming Land

Lime is rued by-«taoit every farmer in the tastern pttt of Pennsylvania, atintervals of every five years *hen the land is seeded with - clover and iimothy, with fall wheat ot. rye, »nd it must be admitted that where this practice prevail! are fonnd.as good farms, crops ' and building! as in any other locality ,and far •bove the average" of most place*. Lime if required, by all eropv animust be in a soluble condition , Limestone ia not lime and ia not available •■ food for plants, being iuf. ■oluble, bnt when calcined into lime the lime ii Minnie. Hence the benefits derived from it,' Thirty or forty ' baskets per 'acre are usually* inpplied by spreading upon the "* plonghed land ia the fall and it is then har f rowed in with the teed. The land is usually mannred before the. ploughing. There are icachineß made for spreading lime, which can be procured of the dealers in agricultural implementt, O ' Oats and spring wheat should, be sown ai toon aa the ground is fit to be ploughed. They may often be. seeded, with grass and clover if sown in drills. Sow ' the grass seed in the drills with the grain ; otherwise sow the gran teed after the $rain.