What is washing soda?
What are some of the uses of lime?
Soda, one of the alkalies contained in the ashes of plants, is very much the same as potash in its agricultural character. Its uses are the same as those of potash—before enumerated. Soda exists very largely in nature, as it forms an important part of common salt, whether in the ocean or in those inland deposits known as rock salt. When combined with sulphuric acid it forms sulphate of soda or Glauber's salts. In combination with carbonic acid, as carbonate of soda, it forms the common washing soda of the shops. It is often necessary to render soils fertile.
LIME.
Lime is in many ways important in agriculture:
1. It is a constituent of plants and animals.
2. It assists in the decomposition of vegetable matter in the soil.
3. It corrects the acidity[E] of sour soils.
4. As chloride or sulphate of lime it is a good absorbent of fertilizing gases.