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fertilizers would be rendered available under the 

 powerful influence of lime ; the soil would yield 

 magnificent harvests for about twenty years, 

 exhausting its entire resources in the effort, but 

 followed by a reaction that would permanently 

 incapacitate it from yielding remunerative harvests, 

 and there would be nothing left but to abandon 

 it as hopelessly sterile. Experiments have been 

 made in Europe with the above results, and it 

 thenceforward became a proverbial saying that 

 lime enriches the father and impoverishes the son. 

 But when the soil is liberally treated, and a 

 careful restoration of the elements withdrawn is 

 substituted for the present system of wanton 

 waste, the application of lime will always be 

 followed by the highest results, permanent in 

 their nature. Some experiments made in Saxony, 

 by Traeger of Oberbobritzsch, show the following 

 very remarkable result in favor of quicklime : 

 Lime Manuring (110 cwts. Quicklime). 



