Land Plaster or Gypsum as a Fertilizer. — Pacific Rural ...
Land Plaster or Gypsum as a Fertilizer. The manurial value of land plaster—sulphate of lime—has long been known and acknowledged. As long ago as when Benjamin Franklin lived and employed his peculiar but moat effective modes of presenting great and important truths to his countrymen, land plaster was employed as a dressing upon the land of our most advanced and intelligent farmers.