LIMING THE LAND IO5 



color and you may know that your soil is sour and that 

 lime is needed as a corrective for the acidity, for the 

 reason that most of our plants do but poorly in acid 

 soils. 



How lime may be applied. A common way that is 

 practicable and inexpensive is to place from 10 to 25 

 bushels of lime on an acre, in heaps of two or three 



USING THE LIME SPREADER 

 As soon as the lime is applied it should be harrowed into the soil 



bushels, covering with soil or old sacks until the lime 

 falls apart and becomes thoroughly slaked. This done, 

 you should spread evenly over the soil and harrow in. 



A more satisfactory method is to slake by means of 

 water, and as soon as in a powdery state, apply to the 

 land and at once incorporate with the soil, not by the 

 plow, for that places it too deep in the soil, but by some 

 surface-working harrow or cultivator. 



