THE LIME IN SOILS 



tarded by good farming, but in the long run 

 the inevitable losses of lime from most soils 

 must be met by applications. 



Limestone Soils. The old-time practice 

 of making heavy applications of fresh 

 burned lime to stiff limestone soils to make 

 them friable, and to make their plant food 

 available, led to disuse of all lime in some 

 sections on account of the exhaustion that 

 followed dependence upon these large 

 amounts as a manure. Queerly enough, 

 these original limestone soils have latterly 

 been going into the acid class through loss 

 of their distinctive elements, and they, too, 

 have become dependent upon means for the 

 correction of acidity. 



