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When to Apply When land needs liming, the best 

 time to put the lime on is as soon as the labor can be 

 secured if it is at least three or four weeks before an 

 application of fertilizer or two weeks after. With this 

 precaution, land can be limed at any time convenient 

 to the grower; however, when it can be so arranged, 

 probably early August is the most desirable time for 

 application, as the summer fertilizer is well incorpo- 

 rated with the soil so there will be no waste through 

 contact of fertilizer and lime on surface of ground, and 

 the nitrates formed will be taken up by the cover crop 

 and the September growth of the trees. 



Too Much Lime? Too great alkalinity is detrimen- 

 tal, but the dangerous alkali salts are based "mainly on 

 soda with a small content of potash and usually a little 

 lime and magnesia." Black alkali is mainly carbonate 

 of soda, while white alkali, which is less injurious, is 

 principally sulphate of soda. With our bounteous rain- 

 fall and open soil there is not the least danger of our 

 forming an "alkali desert" by any applications we might 

 make. The soda left from nitrate of soda is beneficial 

 to us, not detrimental. In clay lands where, nitrate of 

 soda is used in excess it packs the soil, but only in arid 

 regions does "alkali" accumulate. As against "alkali," 

 note the limestone regions. It is proverbial that "a lime- 

 stone country is a rich country." Imagine any applica- 

 tion of limestone approaching the amount of these nat- 

 ural deposits ! 



