The Reclamation of Land From Tidal Water: a Handbook for Engineers, Landed Proprietors, And ...
The Reclamation of Land From Tidal Water: a Handbook for Engineers, Landed Proprietors, And ...
Alexander Beazeley
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This supply of calcareous matter will also act as a manure, and will not only increase the quantity of wheat, but also tend much to improve its quality, to stiffen its straw, so as to prevent or check its lodging, and the consequent deterioration of the grain. In these various ways, an expense of jQ$ per acre thus incurred will soon be repaid, whilst its 238 RECLAMATION OF LAND. beneficial effects on the soil will last at least twenty years even under a succession of cropping, but in grass woul...d be permanent "The more silicious soils, whether sandy or loamy, require less chalk, if any ; and as their texture is apt to be rather too open than too close, lime is often much better adapted to them, if any manure be at all needful, since an intake of soils of this kind generally abounds with shelly fragments, enough to supply the requisite quantity of calcareous matter. It may, however, be well worthy of consideration, whether a supply of lime would not be advan- tageous in setting to work that calcareous matter, and consolidating the texture of the soil.
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