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LIME FOR ALFALFA. 
II. S. A., Clifton Springs, N. Y .—Io pre¬ 
paring a field for Alfalfa, in the use of 
lime, which kind is best, raw ground lime¬ 
stone, fresh burnt lime, hydrated lime, or 
air-slaked lime? What quantity per acre, 
and how applied? What amount of soil 
from an old Alfalfa field to inoculate the 
new field successfully, and how applied? 
Ans. —A pure limestone before burn¬ 
ing will contain 56 parts of lime and 44 
parts of carbonic acid. When fully 
burned the carbonic acid is driven off 
until we have 90 per cent of lime. 
This fresh burnt lime is called “quick,” 
“caustic” or stone lime. It comes in 
lumps, and cannot be evenly spread with¬ 
out grinding or slaking. Slaked lime 
means the lumps or quicklime combined 
with water, which combination is a 
chemical one, setting free much heat. 
When “slaked” 56 pounds of lump lime 
will take up enough water to make 74 
pounds of dry slaked lime. “Hydrated” 
lime is the lump lime ground fine and 
treated to a fine spray of water so that 
each particle is “slaked.” In the or¬ 
dinary “slaked lime” there are. often 
particles of quicklime, or too much 
water. If you had a pure limestone 
to start with you would buy in 100 
pounds about the following amounts of 
lime: Ground limestone, 56 pounds; 
caustic lime, 90 pounds; air-slaked lime, 
75 pounds. Most samples of limestone 
contain impurities—that is, magnesia and 
other metals, but the proportion will be 
much the same as that given above. 
As lime is the only thing you pay for 
you must figure the cost of a pound of 
lime from the price. Some farmers buy 
the lump or caustic lime and slake it at 
the farm, but we would not generally 
advise this. We use either the hydrated 
or slaked lime. It is finer than the 
ground limestone and more active in its 
work. Alfalfa is a crop which demands 
an alkaline soil, and many of our 
Eastern soils are quite “sour” to start 
with. The objection is made that the 
slaked lime acts to “burn up” or decay 
the humus in the soil more rapidly than 
the limestone. Our theory is that we 
put the humus into the soil very largely 
for the purpose of having it decay and 
give up its plant food rapidly. The roots 
of clover or Alfalfa will keep up the 
supply. On the average soil 3,000 pounds 
of slaked lime per acre is a fair dress¬ 
ing. We are planning this year to use 
at least 300 pounds per acre of soil 
from the old Alfa'fa field. It is broad¬ 
cast when the seed is put in, and well 
harrowed. A damp or cloudy day is 
best for applying this soil. 
CORN GROWING IN OTSEGO CO., N. Y. 
I have a piece of ground that I had oats 
on, and just as soon as I got the oats har¬ 
vested I plowed to sow rye, hut I could not 
get the rye there, about four acres. I 
thought that I would try corn on it; it is 
very hard to mature corn in this part of 
the country. I have plenty of cow manure 
and horse manure. We generally put corn 
on sod, but when you put manure on and 
turn the sod over you do not get the good 
of the manure that year, so I thought I 
would try to raise some husking corn. 
Would you manure this plowed ground 
heavily and disk it in, or what would be 
the best way? This piece of ground is light 
and like an ash heap. I thought of putting 
the manure on just as soon as the frost is 
out of the ground, and let the Spring rains 
wash the liquid into the soil. Would you 
use fertilizer in connection with the ma¬ 
nure ? j. p. 
Otsego Co., N. Y. 
The latitude is a little farther north than 
my home in southern Chenango, hut it is 
not farther north than a good many places 
where corn is grown with great success. 
Just what the elevation is there, I am not 
certain, but it must be near the divide be¬ 
tween the Susquehanna and the Mohawk, 
and consequently somewhat elevated. If not 
more than 1,600 feet elevation corn ought 
to do pretty well. Indeed, I know of places 
in Delaware County where at an elevation 
of 1,800 feet, corn grows with marked suc¬ 
cess. If corn does not usually do well, I 
should hesitate to recommend it. The ques¬ 
tioner suggests horse and cow manure to be 
applied in the Spring and disked into the 
soil, as the ground has already been plowed. 
Circumstances alter cases, but if the field 
were mine, and not too steep, so as to 
wash badly, 1 should want to use the horse 
manure in the gutters of the cow stable, I 
and then haul the manure daily to the 
field and spread. Then disk in the Spring 
as proposed. I am not sure but that a 
heavy application of manure might tend to 
prolong the growth and make the crop late. 
It might be as well to apply the manure at 
the rate of six or eight loads to the acre, 
and use a little commercial fertilizer dis¬ 
tributed somewhat in the hill or row, as 
the questioner suggests. As the soil is said 
to be in good condition and tilth, the nitro¬ 
gen of the manure might be all that is 
needed, or a very little could be used in the 
commercial fertilizer. I would use, perhaps, 
300 pounds of acid phosphate and 60 of 
muriate of potash to the acre, if I could 
buy the chemicals, or 500 pounds of a 1-8-6 j 
phosphate, or something approximating that 
grade. I know of no advantage in hand 
planting over the use of the corn planter, if 
the machine is known to work right. I 
would prefer to use an early flint corn that 
is known to produce well, and mature early. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. h. h. l. 
SQUARE SILO, 
"What can you say of a silo made of 
2x4 pine, silo eight feet square, the 2 x 4s 
laid edgewise and spiked down? Would this 
be strong and lasting? 1 have been told 
that such a silo is better than a round 
hoop one. As I intend to build one this 
coming season I want to build the best, and 
as reasonably as I can. e. o. b. 
Orwell, Vt. 
Such a silo would be very expensive 
and no better than if as good as one 
made eight feet square, of 2x8 planks 
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I saw two silos recently, 26x16 feet, 
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felloes of a wheel, nailed together so 
as to make a five-inch hoop, lined with 
rough lumber, cost $100 each. No wind 
blows them down, no dry weather 
shrinks them, so that the hoops loosen. 
They were afterwards lathed and plas¬ 
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