WHAT SHALL ONE BUY? 



phorus, and in addition has a tendency 

 toward correction of soil acidity, but such 

 tendency has little cash value for land that 

 requires a considerable dressing of lime to 

 furnish a base with which soil acids may 

 combine. 



An expression of opinion was obtained 

 recently from some leading soil chemists of 

 this country, and upon such expression we 

 base the estimate that when pulverized 

 limestone costs three dollars a ton, the value 

 of the lime in a ton of basic slag should not 

 be placed higher than 50 cents, and some 

 chemists believe that the lime content is 

 entirely negligible as an agent in soil 

 amendment. 



Lime in Other Fertilizers. The demand 

 for lime is leading some men to state a lime 

 content for their goods that is designed to 

 mislead. Such lime is not in a form to 

 combine with soil acids, and is as valueless 

 as the very large amount of lime in acid 

 soils that is in compounds having no power 

 to affect free acids. 



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