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Equally good results have been obtained in 

 India by lime -manuring, as the following 

 experiment by Mr. Robertson at Madras shows : 



Quicklime should be used for all clayey 

 and marshy soils as soon as slaked, spread 

 equally over the field, and then ploughed in 

 at least three months before the next crop. For 

 use on grass -lands and on light soils, quicklime 

 should be allowed to fall to powder by the moisture 

 of the atmospheric air alone ; only when the air is 

 too dry may it be slaked with water, but it should 

 be exposed to atmospheric action at least a couple 

 of months before use, as otherwise it will destroy 

 the herbage, and deprive the light soils of their 

 organic matter in too great a ratio. But no such 

 precautions need be observed when carbonate of 

 lime is employed. 



The advantages attending the use of Lime-manure 

 consist not only in an increase in the outturn, but 

 in the improvement of soils to such a degree as to 

 enable them to grow superior crops ; an average rice 



