Rotation of Crops. 
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and27'71 lb., and the clover 181*75 and 195*14 lb. of lime, or 
about seven times as much as the beans. 
An increased amount of lime is, therefore, even more directly- 
connected with increased luxuriance and increased production, 
than is an increased amount of potash taken up. Then, again, 
the increased amount of potash was apparently more or less 
directly connected with tendency to maturation or seed-forma- 
tion ; but the lime is found chiefly in the straw of the beans, and 
to be enormously increased in amount in the clover, which does 
not ripen, but is cut whilst still in the vegetative condition. The 
Table X. — Average amounts of Lime per acre in the Rotation , and 
in the continuously grown, Leguminous Crops. 
— 
Unmanured 
Superphosphate 
Mixed mineral and 
nitrogenous manure 
Roots carted 
Roots fed 
Roots carted 
Roots fed 
Roots carted 
Roots fed 
Fal- 
low 
Beans 
or 
clover 
Fal- 
low 
Beans 
or 
clover 
Fal- 
low 
Beans 
or 
clover 
Fal- 
low 
Beans 
or 
clover 
Fal- 
low 
Beaus 
or 
clover 
Fal- 
low 
Beans 
or 
clover 
BEANS (6 COURSES), CLOVER (2 COURSES), OR FALLOW. 
lb. 
lb. 
lb. 
lb. 
lb. 
lb. 
/ Rotation . . . 
1-15 
1-14 
1-10 
1*32 
2-10 
2-38 
Corn J Continuous . 
0-47 
0-47 
5-02 
0-62 
1-24 
1-24 
vRotn.+ or — cont. 
0-68 
0-67 
i 0-58 
0-80 
0-86 
1-14 
/ Rotation .... 
14-61 
14-60 
17-58 
19-39 
24-47 
25-33 
Straw | Continuous - ' • 
7-85 
7-85 
936 
9-36 
15-08 
1508 
' Rotn.+ or — cont. 
6-76 
6-81 
8-22 
10-03 
9-39 
10-25 
/ Rotation .... 
15-76 
15-80 
18-68 
20-71 
26-57 
27-71 
Total J Continuous. . . 
8-32 
8-32 
9-88 
9-88 
16-32 
16-32 
v Rotn.+ or — cont. 
7-44 
7-48 
8-80 
10-83 
10-25 
11-39 
1 Rotation .... 
67-84 
■59-10 
158-62 
184-52 
181-75 
19514 
CIover 1 Continuous . . . 
? 
? 
? 
? 
? 
Average of 8 courses, ) 
Beans and clover f 
28-78 
■26-63 
53*G7 
61-66 
65-36 
69-57 
’ Probably crop too low owing to a dell. 
indication is, therefore, that the lime is, both actually and as 
compared with the potash, much more directly connected with 
the accumulative or vegetative, as distinguished from the matu- 
ring processes of the plant. Certain it is, at any rate, that a 
largely increased accumulation of lime is a coincident of increased 
luxuriance in both crops ; and it is especially so in the case of 
the crop the amount of which depends on the extension of the 
vegetative stages of development, and the production of a large 
amount of crude or unripened vegetable substance. 
VOL. v. t. s. — 20 ’■ u u 
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