. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XV. No. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 107 LIME BURNING IN SMALL PITS. The following extract from an article in The Agricultural Gazette of New South Walef<. November, , will probably be interesting and useful to planters in the West Indies, on whose estates similar conditions may exist to those referred to in the opening sentence of the extract and who may find it profitable to burn small quantities of lime for their own use. In districts where there is in the subsoil, or limestone outcrops,
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. XV. No. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 107 LIME BURNING IN SMALL PITS. The following extract from an article in The Agricultural Gazette of New South Walef<. November, , will probably be interesting and useful to planters in the West Indies, on whose estates similar conditions may exist to those referred to in the opening sentence of the extract and who may find it profitable to burn small quantities of lime for their own use. In districts where there is in the subsoil, or limestone outcrops, and a fair .supply of good timber fuel, it will usually pay the irrigation farmer to burn his own lime for concrete channels, either in co-operation with other farmers, or on his own account. In some districts it would pay settlers to erect a properly constructed limekiln on co-opera- tive lines to burn lime for concrete channels, buildings, and for use as a fertilizer. Where a kiln'is not available, the stone may be burnt in a square or rectangular pit, sunk, preferably in a clay soil, with a passage of access to the bottom. A pit 12 feet by 8 feet, by 8 feet deep, will be large enough to burn about Uyards of hme at one time, which should be enough for the needs of the average .50-acre "i&tm. In limestone rubble country the stone may be raised, and screened twice, first through a coarse screen by means of which the large stones suitable for lime burning are separated from the small stones suitable for gravel, and from the dirt, after which the gravel and dirt may be separated by means of a smaller scrGsn. To burn the limestone, a layer of dry sticks and brush, about 6 inches thick, should first of all be spread in the bottom of the pit, and on top of that a layer of box logs (preferably green and dry mixed) 10 feet long and from 1 foot to 2 feet in diameter; on this layer of fuel a layer of limestone may be laid, followed by further alternate layers of fuel and limest
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