Ibe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
937 
What Crops for Lime? 
Whafc ordinary plants and vegetables 
are benefited by lime and what, if any, 
are harmed by it? H. L. n. 
Massachusetts. 
Very few of our cultivated plants are 
injured by lime, although some of them 
appear to be neutral; that is. they do not 
respond when lime is applied. The lime 
gives best results on such crops as Al¬ 
falfa. clover, Timothy ana most other 
grasses. Red-top is an exception, ap¬ 
parently doing better on soil that is a 
trifle acid. Alsike clover will also give 
a fair crop on soil inclined to be acid, or 
soil that is damp, while Red clover will 
usually fade away unless there is an 
abundance of lime. Crimson clover ap¬ 
pears to be able to grow fairly well on a 
mildly acid soil. Soy beaus and cow peas 
have also given us fair results on soil 
which would not grow Timothy or clover 
without a heavy liming. Thus it often 
happens that on tough, sour land such 
crops as Soy beans, cow peas. Alsike or 
even Crimson clover will prove more 
profitable than Red clover or Alfalfa. 
Among fruits, the peach with us re¬ 
sponds to a lime application. We have 
never been able to see that apples require 
lime, except on soils very deficient in that 
substance. Where lime is used in an 
apple orchard and results are obtained, 
it is generally due to the fact that the 
lime increases the cover crop and thus in¬ 
creases the organic matter or the nitro¬ 
gen. Strawberries are injured by a 
heavy application of lime. We do not ad¬ 
vise the use of lime or wood ashes on 
strawberries, although some of our read¬ 
ers report that the ashes have given them 
good results. 
Wheat, oats, barley and buckwheat re¬ 
spond freely to a dressing of lime. Rye 
does not respond so well. In fact we have 
been able to grow good crops of rye on 
land too sour to produce clover. Corn 
varies somewhat with the variety. Most 
varieties of sweet corn respond well to 
the use of lime. Most of the field va¬ 
rieties usually give their best crop on a 
soil that is mildly acid. Some of the 
flints grown in New England seem to 
have become adapted to a sour soil, so 
that they thrive and produce a good crop 
on land that would rank as soiir. Other 
varieties of flints, selected for growth on 
strong, rich land, grow best when the 
soil is thoroughly limed. Most garden 
vegetables respond to lime. Cahhage 
grows best in an alkaline soil, and the 
lime is particularly usefuKin preventing 
the disease known as “club-foot.” Root 
crops, and most varieties of beans and 
peas, respond to a lime application. It 
is not wise to use lime on potatoes, since 
ii is likely to increase the scab disease. 
Rhubarb and a few similar plants are ap¬ 
parently either injured by lime or at 
least gain no particular benefit from it. 
but on the whole with the average soil of 
the Eastern farm, it is safe to use lime 
on garden crops. Where only a part of 
tin' crops can be limed, we should from 
choice use it on clover. Alfalfa. Timothy 
and similar grasses when seeding down, 
or when a cover crop has been plowed 
under. 
Fertilizer Value of Night Soil 
is there any fertilizer value in the mat¬ 
ter which overflows from or is removed by 
pump or otherwise from a sanitary toilet 
in which chemicals are used? w. f. l. 
Ouaquaga. N. Y. 
Yes, there would be much the same 
value that is found iu other forms of 
night soil or human excrement. The 
chemicals used iu the toilet will probably 
add little or nothing to its fertilizing 
value, and perhaps remove some of the 
nitrogen. These chemicals are generally 
something like caustic soda, and soda is 
not recognized as one of the essential 
plant food elements. An ordinary sam¬ 
ple of such night soil would be worth 
about 75 per cent as much, ton for ton, 
as ordinary stable manure. It is fre¬ 
quently used by gardeners and gives good 
results when used iu connection with 
phosphorus of some sort. It could be 
pumped out and used on the garden or on 
grass, but the value of such material is 
generally much exaggerated. 'We have 
used it on garden and farm crops, and 
round it not quite equal to stable manure 
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