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Liming in Herefordshire. 



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grind it down to a fine powder, without previously burning. 

 For distribution, an enterprising firm could place storage bins 

 at Symonds Yat Station, as well as at a convenient point at the 

 bottom of the hill between Symonds Yat and Whitchurch, 

 where it could be conveyed by road to different farms. These 

 bins could easily be filled by trucks carried on an overhead 

 railway from the point of quarrying and grinding the stone. 

 It would also be a great advantage to have one or more steam 

 lorries, so as to be able to dehver the ground limestone for the 

 farmer. 



The Golden Valley has a fairly good limestone and kilns 

 close to Vowchurch, but the hmestone quarries sampled in the 

 north of the county have not proved so satisfactory. For- 

 tunately this district has an excellent supply of lime in the 

 New Radnor district. 



The Agricultural Sub-Committee is giving all the publicity 

 possible to the fact that suitable agricultural limestone exists 

 in the county, and already its efforts are bearing fruit. 



Oo-operative Burning:. — In the Aymestrey District the writer 

 learnt that a small limestone quarry used to be worked for 

 agricultural purposes by about half a dozen neighbouring 

 farmers. Each farmer assisted with the quarrying of the 

 limestone and the carting of the coal, and after burning 

 received his share of the lime. 



Dual Purpose Quarries. — The quarry at Ledbury Hill is an 

 interesting case of a dual purpose quarry. It has been taken 

 on lease by the Ledbury Rural District Council with the primary 

 object of supplying stone for the roads. To reach the stratum 

 containing the road stone, however, it is necessary to cut 

 through an upper stratum w^hich, as already explained (p. 159), 

 contains hme excellently suited for agricultural purposes. 

 The quarry is thus worked with the double purpose of obtaining 

 both kinds of limestone. This is certainly one of the most 

 economical ways of working a quarry, and the system should 

 be extended in rural districts where suitable limestone quarries 

 are being worked by the County or District Councils. 



