Chapter I: Front Matter

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.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

1. INTRODUCTION 1

2. THE LIME IN SOILS 4

3. SOUR SOILS 10

4. EVIDENCES OF ACIDITY 15

5. TESTS FOR ACIDITY 20

6. SOURCES OF LIME 24

7. DEFINITIONS 28

8. GROUND LIMESTONE 33

9. STORING LIME IN THE SOIL 38

10. FRESH BURNED LIME 44

11. BURNING LIME 49

12. LIME HYDRATE 53

13. OTHER FORMS OF LIME 57

14. MAGNESIAN LIME 64

15. WHAT SHALL ONE BUY? 68

16. METHODS OF APPLICATION 78

17. AMOUNT OF LIME PER ACRE 82

18. SPECIAL CROP DEMANDS 86

ILLUSTRATIONS

Applying Lime Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

I. Clover and Timothy Unfertilized at the Pennsylvania
Experiment Station Yielded 2,460
pounds per acre 10

II. Clover and Timothy with Fertilizer alone at
the Pennsylvania Experiment Station Yielded
3,900 pounds per acre 11

III. Clover and Timothy with Lime alone at the
Pennsylvania Experiment Station Yielded
4,900 pounds per acre 14

IV. Clover and Timothy with Fertilizer and Lime
at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station
yielded 6,290 pounds per acre 15

V. Limed and Unlimed Ends of a Plot at the
Ohio Experiment Station 16

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 17

VII. Lime Favors Clover at the Ohio Experiment
Station 24

VIII. Lime Affects Growth of Corn at the Ohio Experiment
Station 25

IX. An Indiana Limestone Quarry 32

X. A Limestone Plant 33
(Courtesy of the Michigan Limestone Company.)

XI. A Limestone Pulverizer for Farm Use 38
(Courtesy of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company,
Columbus, Ohio.)

XII. A Lime Pulver in Operation 39
(Courtesy of the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company.)

XIII. Laying Foundation for a Lime Stack at the
Pennsylvania Experiment Station 48

XIV. A Stack nearly Completed at the Pennsylvania
Experiment Station 49

XV. Effect of Excessive Use of Burned Lime without
Manure at the Pennsylvania Experiment
Station 52

XVI. A Hydrated Lime Plant 53
(Courtesy of the Palmer Lime and Cement Company,
York, Pa.)

XVII. Filling the Lime Spreader at the Ohio Experiment
Station 78

XVIII. Lime Distributors 79

XIX. Remarkable Effect of Lime on Sweet Clover at
the Ohio Experiment Station 86

XX. Sweet Clover Thrives When Lime and Manure
are Supplied, Ohio Experiment Station 87

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