This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...useless without it to plant them with corn crops, as the crops become lodged, and iu many cases rotted upon the land; while succulent crops arc very profitable.--k. S. In illustration of the uses of lime on pasture land I append the analyses of three pasture soils: --Composition of Soil from Shepton Mallet (No. I.); ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 Excerpt: ...useless without it to plant them with corn crops, as the crops become lodged, and iu many cases rotted upon the land; while succulent crops arc very profitable.--k. S. In illustration of the uses of lime on pasture land I append the analyses of three pasture soils: --Composition of Soil from Shepton Mallet (No. I.); Claverton (No II.); and from Kingston Seymour, Congressbury (No. III.). a. Mechanical Analysis. The soil from Shepton Mallet, it will be observed, contains a great deal of vegetable matter, present principally in the shape of undecayed and partially decomposed roots. This is a stiff dark-coloured clay soil, which dries up into hard lumps. In the soil from Claverton there is also a considerable quantity of organic matter and clay, and comparatively speaking little sand. Like the preceding soil, it is of a stiff nature, and contains very little lime. The third analysis represents the composition of marshy land from Kingston Seymour. It is a marshy, dark-coloured, almost black soil, which is free from stones, and dries up to hard masses like brickbats. The dark colour is due to the presence of imperfectly decomposed vegetable remains. All three soils, but more especially the one from Claverton, would be greatly benefited by heavy dressings of lime. In the marsh land the proportion of lime is smaller than in the two other soils, and yet its colour is much darker. This appears to me to indicate that the land is badly drained, and that the effect of lime probably will not be so marked upon this soil as on others of a similar composition. In badly drained soils organic matter rapidly increases; the land becomes more and more marshy or peaty. This defect can only be successfully remedied by thorough drainage, and by subsequently applying lime or marl if ..
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