. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals. Gardening; Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture. USES OF LIME 295 cent actual potash, and (2) muriate of potash, with fifty per cent actual potash. Potash is now obtained in commercial amounts from wastes in cement factories and iron refineries. LIMING OF SOILS Many garden, orchard, and field soils need liming. Our soils may be sour and need lime for that reason. Many legumes need lime (Fig. 205) so that their special bacteria can live in the soils. Uses of Lime.—There are a number of beneficial effects resulting from the liming of soils.
. Horticulture; a text book for high schools and normals. Gardening; Vegetable gardening; Fruit-culture. USES OF LIME 295 cent actual potash, and (2) muriate of potash, with fifty per cent actual potash. Potash is now obtained in commercial amounts from wastes in cement factories and iron refineries. LIMING OF SOILS Many garden, orchard, and field soils need liming. Our soils may be sour and need lime for that reason. Many legumes need lime (Fig. 205) so that their special bacteria can live in the soils. Uses of Lime.—There are a number of beneficial effects resulting from the liming of soils. 1. Lime will correct the sourness of soils. Nearly all crops are less productive on sour soils. The application of lime will make these crops thrive if other conditions are Fig. 205.—Lime increases the growth of clover and other legumes. Right from limed plot, left from unlimed plot. The clover improveB the soil foi other crops. 2. Lime tends to correct the stickiness of clay soils and makes them more loose and porous. They will then not bake and crack so badly as a result of heavy rains followed by dry weather. 3. Sandy soils are made firmer by the use of lime on them. They will plow better, hold moisture and plant food better, etc. 4. Liming of soils aids in the decay of vegetable matter which they contain. When green manure and barnyard manure are turned under lime should be applied soon after. ' The converse is also true. Organic matter must be applied to soils that are limed. Otherwise the humus matter would soon be gone and the net result would be detrimental. 5. Plant food in soils is made more available by the action of lime. At first the apparent result of liming would be much the same as adding a complete fertilizer to the soil. The growing crop is able to take from the soil more than it could without the action. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and
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