IMPORTANCE OF LIME
March and April are good months to apply lime to the soil. Lime is a direct plant food and is generally present in most virgin soils in sufficient quantities, but is gradually worked out by constant cropping and the continuous use of certain fertilisers as sulphate of ammonia and dried blood, so that a soil not only becomes actually deficient in lime as a plant food, hut may also acquire an acidity or sourness unfavourable to the growth of plants. The chief function of lime is, however, mechanic; it renders heavy, clayey soils more friable and less tenacious, and makes light, sandy soils more cohesive. As a manure it corrects undesirable acldit3’, and through its action on organic matter and Insoluble minerals in the soil, makes plant food available, which otherwise would be useless.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 28
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137IMPORTANCE OF LIME Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 874, 18 January 1930, Page 28
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