LIME AND CLOVER.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 562, 26 April 1913, Page 6

LIME AND CLOVER.

In this abundance of talk on the use of lime on land, it is well for us to establish certain well known principles in our minds to Btart with. 1. That we should not use burned or quick lime, unless thoroughly air slacked, because of its caustic property whereby it eats ud the humus or vegetable matter in the soil, thus robbing it of its best nitrogen holder. 2. That our main object should be to use lime in order that we may increase the capacity of our land to grow clover or alfalfa. On these two plants we must depend for a proper rotation, for through them we increase the nitrogen in the soil. Once get our land to producing abundant and sure crops of clover or lucerne, we have the key, with proper management, to further en richment of the land. Hence we should use ground limestone first of all for the purpose of growing clover or lucerne, If we keep these principles snd objects in mind we will be sure not to go wrong. It used to be said: "Everything is possible on the farm that can grow clover abundantly." There's the secret o£ the uplift of our land. We get our big crops from the combined use of manure, and turned over clover, and it is the limestone that helps to establish the clover.— Hoard's Dairyman.