  - Air-slaked lime, composition and relative value of, 31, 57
- Agricultural lime, composition and relative value of, 58, 76
- Amount of lime per acre, 82
- Basic slag, 76
- Burning lime, methods of, 49
- Calcium, 29
- carbonate, 30
- hydroxide, 30
- oxide, 29
- Carbon dioxide, 30
- Causes of soil acidity, 10, 12, 13, 14
- Caustic lime affects physical condition, 44, 46
- acts on humus, 44, 47
- frees inert plant food, 44
- compared with limestone, 45
- irrational use of, 44
- may injure a sandy soil, 66, 85
- right use of, 48
- Caustic magnesian lime on sandy land, 66
- Chemical changes produce acidity, 13
- Clover, 17, 19, 87
- Composition of limestone, 24, 30, 31, 46
- Distribution of lime, 70, 78
- Distributors, 80, 81
- Dolomite, 30, 67
- Equivalents in value, 69
- Extent of soil acidity, 6, 11
- Fineness of limestone, 39, 73
- Frear, Dr. Wm., 50
- Fresh burned lime, 44
- composition and relative value of, 29, 31, 45, 69, 71
- Gas lime, 62
- Ground limestone, composition and relative value of, 30, 33, 69, 72
- Hydrated lime, composition and relative value of 30, 31,
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