332 THE HORSE 



Scotland to friends in England, a piece being placed in the 

 beak of each bird, some powdered charcoal sprinkled under 

 each wing, and some spare pieces placed between each 

 grouse. 



When mixed with Magnesia Lime — Charcoal one part and 

 Magnesia Lime eight parts — it increases the value of manure 

 when spread over a heap. It acts well both with stable and 

 vegetable heaps, and also with earth closets. 



Gas Lime is a good disinfectant and deodorant, and more- 

 over cheap, when the cost of carriage is not prohibitive. It 

 acts well on grass-lands and in the garden, being destructive 

 to that pest the wire- worm, as well as performing the 

 ordinary functions of lime in correcting humic acid in the 

 soil, thus rendering available as food for plants much which 

 was rendered unfit before by the presence of the acid. It 

 should not be put on fresh, however, but should either be 

 mixed with soil, or thrown on a vegetable heap, and allowed 

 to mellow for some months, being occasionally turned over 

 before being applied to the ground. 



