SIMPLE TEST FOR LIME.
A Wairarapa agriculturist of considerable experience stated recently that it was a very easy matter for farmers to test the soil for lime. Take a few shovelfuls of soil, he said, from different parts of the paddock or garden, and dry, pulverise and mix it thoroughly together. Having done this, take a few ounces of the powder and reduce it to ashes
on an iron shovel over the fire. When cool, the ashes should be put into a glass tumbler, mixed with as much water as would cover over them, and stirred with a glass rod or wooden stich, but not with anything metalli. To this paste add one ounce of hydrochloric, which is commonly known as muriatic acid, or spirits of salts. The mixture should be stirred all the time, and if a fairly brisk effervescence took place, the soil contained a fair percentage of lime. If, however, no effervescence took place, there would be very little or no lime in the soil.
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Waipa Post, Volume I, Issue 17, 13 June 1911, Page 4
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