Lime occurs very extensively distributed in nature, principally in combination with nitric, carbonic, and sulphuric acids—as in limestone, marble, chalk, gympsum, &c. Lime is looked upon by most ...

Y.'—informs us, that his experience in the culture of potatoes has convinced him that about a handful of dry slacked lime placed in each hill tends to prevent the potato rot. The lime ...

April 18. -- Perfectly preserved bones of gigantic prehistoric animals which roamed the Allegheny Mountains were discovered by a blast in the quarries of the American Lime and Stone Company along ...