INVALID FOOD 



LIME 

 CALCIUM CARBONATE 



and Puller, cultivation is most extensive in the damper parts of these 

 moo*. It in Mown in nil kinds of soil, l.ut rhinfly m |.,w-lyiiin land, (iener- 

 itlly it folli.wH .-.irl\ rice, being often sown while the rice stalks are standin. 



lowed to grow up amongst them. The seed rate varies with the condition 

 lint, l>iit is commonly about one rrmunil per acre. Tin- outturn from 

 imirriiraif.i latnl varies from 6J to 8 maunds per acre, but with 

 reach 10 to 12 immnds. 



ntrai I'nnincea and iterar. In 1904-5 the area under the crop was in 

 I 1'r.. \iucps, 231,756 acres, chiefly in the ChhattinKarh. .Fal.l.alpur and 

 id. in Division*, ami in IWar. 13,167 acres. It is generally sown on th 

 Mark soil. 



Panjub. No statistics of area are available. In the Jhang <ii^tri. t, which 



is t \ j. ..i of the province as a whole, it is a nailoba or inun<intion crop. New 



alluvial soils or light lands, not good enough for wheat, are selected. The land 



i-hixl once or twice and the seed is sown broadcast, 30 to 45 Ib. per acre, 



mbor to January. The crop is ripe in March to April. \Cf. Oat. 



I'urti :/, Di-at.] 



Hombay. In 1904-5 the area was 9,791 acres, chiefly in Nasik (6,097 acres) 



.m-i Belgaum (2,918 acres). Matur is always an unirrigated rabi crop, and 



illy is grown alone. In Poona it is the sole crop of the year, and is rotated 



with dry-crop wheat. The soil is mixed black, but only of moderate depth. In 



September and Octboer tho land is repeatedly ploughed, and in October the seed 



is drilled in rows a foot apart at the rate of 20 to 25 Ib. per acre. The crop 



ripens in three and a half months, and a good outturn is about 300 Ib. per acre. 



Molliaon, Textbook Ind. Agri., 1901, iiL, 89-90.] 



Food. In India it is eaten as ddl, flavoured with various aromatics 

 and condiments, also as a component part of the dish called kichri, and 

 is considered the most nutritious of the pulsos. The young pod is also 

 eaten as a vegetable, and the dry leaves and stalks are greatly prized as 

 fodder. In Europe this pulse meal, mixed with barley flour or other 

 1 and common salt, is sold as an invalid food under the name 

 KKVALENTA or REVALENTA. Leather (Ind. Food-Grains and Fodders, 

 .I'/n. Ledg., 1901, No. 10, 366) gives the following CHEMICAL analysis: 

 moisture 8O3 per cent., oil 1*06, albuminoids 23*0, soluble carbohydrates 

 '>rU, woody fibre 2'42, soluble mineral matter 3 '54, sand and silica 0'81, 

 total nitrogen 3 '94, albuminoid nitrogen 3 '68. As a MEDICINE, lentils 

 have long had the reputation of being useful in cases of constipation and 

 other intestinal affections. 



[Cf. Bentham, Rev. of Targioni-Tozzetti, mJourn. Hort. Soc., 1855, ix., 139; De 

 Candolle, Orig. Cult. Plants, 1884, 321 ; Church, Food-Grains of Ind., 1886, 138-9 ; 

 Asa Gray, Scient. Papers, 1889, i., 347; Kanny Lall Doy, Indig. Drugs, of Ind., 

 1896, 174-5 ; Yearbook of Pharmacy, 1898, 77.] 



LIME, MARBLE, CHALK, etc., OP Calcium and its Salts 

 and Manufactures. Although Liinf (Calcium) does not exist in a 

 pure state, in the form of the carbonate it constitutes a by no means 

 insignificant portion of the earth's crust, e.g. limestone rocks. Lime- 

 lnii-niinj is the operation of driving off carbonic acid from the carbonate 

 with the production of the oxide of calcium or o// />/.// w. This readily 

 absorbs water and becomes Slakctl Linn- or hydrate of lime (Agri. Ledg., 

 1902, No. 5, 137-47). The subject may, therefore, be dealt with under 

 i\\(. .rr ea t sections Calcium. Carbonate and Calcium Sulphate. 



LIME, CARBONATE OF This is known in India by an exten- 

 sive series of vernacular names that denote the conditions (quick- 

 lime, slaked lime, etc.) and the sources (limestone, raarbK chalk, shells, 

 et<\). The most general name is perhaps the Hindustani chund, a word 

 which in the various languages of India assumes numerous forms, such 

 as chundh, chun, chuno, chtinak, chundmbu, churna, shunnambu, sunnam, 



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C. Prov. 



Aim. 



Punjab. 



IMI.'J !*!: -i 



Crop. 



Bombay. 



Arm. 



Food, 



Hal. 



ErvalenU. 



Hadidoe. 



D.E.P., 

 ii., 142-62 ; 

 v., 185-6. 

 Lime. 



