Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement

Alva Agee

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Title: Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement

Author: Alva Agee

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Applying Lime

Right Use of Lime In Soil Improvement

By

ALVA AGEE

Secretary New Jersey State Department of Agriculture

Formerly director of agricultural extension in the Pennsylvania State College and New Jersey State College of Agriculture. Illustrated NEW YORK ORANGE JUDD COMPANY LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LIMITED 1919 Copyright 1919, by ORANGE JUDD COMPANY All Rights Reserved Printed in U. S. A.

CONTENTS

 CHAPTER 1. I NTRODUCTION 2. T HE L IME   IN S OILS 3. S OUR S OILS 4. E VIDENCES   OF A CIDITY 5. T ESTS   FOR A CIDITY 6. S OURCES   OF L IME 7. D EFINITIONS 8. G ROUND L IMESTONE 9. S TORING L IME   IN   THE S OIL 10. F RESH B URNED L IME 11. B URNING L IME 12. L IME H YDRATE 13. O THER F ORMS   OF L IME

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14. M AGNESIAN L IME 15. W HAT S HALL O NE B UY ? 16. M ETHODS   OF A PPLICATION 17. A MOUNT   OF L IME   PER A CRE 18. S PECIAL C ROP D EMANDS

ILLUSTRATIONS

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 Applying LimeFrontispiece 1. Clover and Timothy10 Unfertilized at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station Yielded 2,460 pounds per acre II. Clover and Timothy with Lime alone at the the Pennsylvania Experiment Station Yielded 3,900 pounds per acre III. Clover and Timothy with Lime alone at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station Yielded 4,900 pounds per acre IV. Clover and Timothy with Fertilizer and Lime at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station yielded 6,290 pounds per acre V. Limed and Unlimed Ends of a Plot at the Ohio Experiment Station VI. Effect of Finely Pulverized Limestone on Clover in a Soil having a Lime Requirement of 5,200 Pounds of Limestone per Acre, at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station VII. Lime Favors Clover at the Ohio Experiment Station VIII. Lime Affects Growth of Corn at the Ohio Experiment Station IX. An Indiana Limestone Quarry

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X. A Limestone Plant (Courtesy of the Michigan Limestone Company.) XI. A Limestone Pulverizer for Farm Use (Courtesy of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio.) XII. A Lime Pulver in Operation (Courtesy of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company.) XIII. Laying Foundation for a Lime Stack at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station XIV. A Stack nearly Completed at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station XV. Effect of Excessive Use of Burned Lime without Manure at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station XVI. A Hydrated Lime Plant (Courtesy of the Palmer Lime and Cement Company, York, Pa. XVII. Filling the Lime Spreader at the Ohio Experiment Station XVIII. Lime Distributors XIX. Remarkable Effect of Lime on Sweet Clover at the Ohio Experiment Station XX. Sweet Clover Thrives When Lime and Manure are Supplied, Ohio Experiment Station

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION There is much in the action of lime in the soil that is not known, but all that we really need to know is simple and easily comprehended. The purpose of this little book is to set down the things that we need to know in order that we may make and kee our land friendl to lant life so far as lime is necessaril

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Limestone Land.Soil analyses are serviceable only within certain limits, and in the case of the normal soils that comprise the very great part of the entire humid region of the United States the practical man gives little heed to what special anal ses mi ht show him when decidin u on the urchase of a farm. He does

THE LIME IN SOILS

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CHAPTER II

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