LIME AND PASTURE.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 151033, 26 July 1919, Page 6

LIME AND PASTURE.

In dealing with more or loss sour oracid soils, where lime has been applied in connection with a crop in the rota-. tan, it frequently happens (says an ex- '■ change) that the growth yielded by the' treated paddock ia greater, and larger hay crops are harrested, duo in a measure to the sweetening processes of • the carbonate. The greater bulk of feed will be due to the , greater growth of clover growing witH the grass rather • than more grass, although they will ob-i tarn an indirect, if not a direct benefit from the lime. Jt is, noticeable tbaJ grasses growing in association wifck a legume often make rapid growth 1 and contain a larger proportion of pro-! tein than grass growing in a similar soil | but not m mixture wth a leguminous! crop. The need of lime on any soil is! likely to "be indicated by the failure of: clover to make a satisfactory growth so | wherever good cropa of clover are 'ob- i tamed one may rest satisfied as to the I soil s lime-content. In practice it -will i bo found that if finely-ground limestone ' is used it will be necessary in order to! supply as much lime or calcium as the burned-hme, to use twice the quantity of the former, and in general to make use^ot: the - finely-ground limestone or «halk on lands containing but a moderate amount of vegetable matter in the ' form of humus.