LIME FOR THE LAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 80, 25 August 1914, Page 8

LIME FOR THE LAND.

| __ (To the Editor.) •Sir,--Tllere is sent (lilt <if New ZMj land-annually about Hill),(Jilt) for ma-imire.-i, aiul a grea;t."r portion is for Ba-u- SI;VL r . What e!e:meiitk of plant' food docs this slag contain? Say CO ner .cent, of lime, 20-per cent. uf pliosphaitc, and 20 per cent, of iron. Now, dots .either (lie plant or V.!,,t require twenty |)er wnt. of iron to build up its train"'.' Wolll'. in liis book "Rational Keodino- of I'a.vm Animal*," wvs itlu- largo-rf. amount of iron found in a' full-grown linJlo'. k is 4:1 f!not';on-. Cooke, in his book of plant-growing. slioivs tihat plants only require a small amount of iron to Wil'd up their frames. From the above faeU it will lie seen flint, people who- buy hlax are simply throwing away their money ill paying tor iron Hist h part of the slap;, and that neither plan;, nor beast. ,ivi)iiire it. 1 am prepared to prove at, anv moment tlia.i, -belter results can be pot by topdressiii"' ,'jiass lands with lime, at one-third ifce cost that it, takes to (Int.* wiili liask- Slap. Twenty-three year-i we commene'd to top-tlrev, our with lime at '.he u.Le of ji'wt. per acre. At that time the l.uid youhl only carry tiiree sheep per acre, |l:;:il now theeamo lam! carries six -die«]i |duriii.v the four winter months 'and j twelve -heep per acre (iurin r the oliicv I 1 ne nths. At the eml of every live | always pu'. on a fresh di'cs-- | 'la.' fit lillle at, the >'.!!tle rat" -*>'•' w You of leu hear people >ay; i'nat lon •j n-;»«*h i ; m-» will render tile land asnus! Nwo'.'l.'ih';.-. Siu-h :i Mat en:eni< in; - ) 1< adinli" and Wort life--(. In our ca--<-'iei' 1 can be "en and tin- >heep eennlc.) 'at any time. Keep vonr ine?n-\ in your 1.v.-n ili-l rie l . and tn)i-<l 'i■.on.' land villi Toko lime that is now 1< -in;r m.M. '1 am. etc.. i;. i\kstki;.