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TEffi TO iim 



Acidity is like sickness - an ounce of orevuntion may be ii/orth a pound of 

 "cure" . 



Many folks prefer to remain healtlay by follOTving a reasonable diet. Then 

 why not treat your soil and crops the same v/ay? 



By Keeping, Them "Svfeet". 



''•ihy not try a policy of liming sods befor^ they run out? 



1. Tlie lime will be slowly penetrating and working. 



2, It may help your crop and vron't be lost. 



It should keep "svreet" soils up and improve others, 



3c Spreading can be done more easily vrtien conditions are firm - 

 summer, fall, or when the ground is frozen, 



h» You can save time and labor through bulk spreading, 



5* Vifhen time comes to plow and harrow, the lime will be better 

 mixed through the soil, 



6, If you should turn up acid bottom soil, then lime it some - 

 it won't need as much, 



7. Judge the lime rate and frequency by means of soil tests. 

 Treatments might run 3 to $ year intervals. 



By Keeping Them Acid. 



Of course, if you vrait until sods run out, or the soil is really acid, it may 

 take a heavy liming job to start a new seeding off. 



Too often it has been necessary to rush this operation in the spring, when 

 getting stuck-in-the-mud is most certain | 



— R, \'[. Donaldson 



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WLL THE BEACH PLUII RESPOND TO AN APPLICATION OF FERTILIZER? 



Iiihy doesn't the beach plimi die of starvation? It is so often found on sand 

 dunes where any compounds other than salt from salt spray must be very scarce. 

 Any nitrogen, which is so essential to the grov/th of plants, that reaches the 

 sand would certainly be washed out by the first rain. Yet the beach plum is able 

 to live under such conditions » How can it? 



