RIGHT USE OF LIME IN SOIL IMPROVEMENT 



and for forage, having an inferior root 

 system, but has proved a boon to farmers in 

 areas that have been losing the power to 

 grow red clover. The custom of mixing 

 red and alsike seed has become widespread, 

 and distinctly acid soils are marked in the 

 clover flowering season by the profusion of 

 the distinctive alsike bloom to the exclusion 

 of the red. While there is acid-resistant 

 power, this clover responds to liming. 



Crimson Clover. Among lime-loving 

 plants crimson clover has a rightful place, 

 but it makes fairly good growth where the 

 lack of lime is marked. 



Bluegrass. The heaviest bluegrass sods 

 are found where lime is abundant in the 

 soil. This most valuable pasture grass may 

 withstand the encroachments of weeds for 

 a long time when lime is not abundant, if 

 plant food is not in scant supply, but 

 dependable sods of this grass are made only 

 in an alkaline soil. Heavy liming of an 

 acid soil pays when a seeding to permanent 

 pasture is made, and old sods on land unfit 

 for tillage may be given a new life by a 

 dressing. 



Crops Favored by Lime. Nearly all 

 staple farm crops respond to applications 



