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Mrs. Rowland receipt and household remedy book, Feb. 15, 1815
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Lime The use of lime in agriculture may be attributed to a property of hartening the dissolution and putrefaction of all animal & vegetable matter. and of imparting to the soil a power of retaining a quantity of moisture necessary for the nourishment and vigorous growth of plants, corn &c.: but there is no good mix that does not contain a certain portion of lime, tho' always, without exception combined with carbonic acid. Hence lime & chalk are found to be particularly useful on sandy soils. Marl is a mixture of carbonate of lime alloy Marls are useful in agriculture only in proportion to the calcareous earth they contain unless they contain more than 30 percent of lime they are of no value to the farmer. Of all modes of trial, the one best suited to the unlearned farmer is, to observe how much fixed air the marle gives out; and this he will learn by dissolving a little of it in silvered muriatic acid, and observing what portion of its weight it loses by the escape of the air. Thus if an ounce loses only 40 grains, he may conclude that the ounce
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Lime The use of lime in agriculture may be attributed to a property of hartening the dissolution and putrefaction of all animal & vegetable matter. and of imparting to the soil a power of retaining a quantity of moisture necessary for the nourishment and vigorous growth of plants, corn &c.: but there is no good mix that does not contain a certain portion of lime, tho' always, without exception combined with carbonic acid. Hence lime & chalk are found to be particularly useful on sandy soils. Marl is a mixture of carbonate of lime alloy Marls are useful in agriculture only in proportion to the calcareous earth they contain unless they contain more than 30 percent of lime they are of no value to the farmer. Of all modes of trial, the one best suited to the unlearned farmer is, to observe how much fixed air the marle gives out; and this he will learn by dissolving a little of it in silvered muriatic acid, and observing what portion of its weight it loses by the escape of the air. Thus if an ounce loses only 40 grains, he may conclude that the ounce
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