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Fig. 31. — ^A Convenient Display Cooler. This is quite diilerent from the usual 



square, corner cooler found in many florist shops, but it should prove especially 



well adapted for the center of a store of medium size 



There is no better way to tell all about the value of lime than 

 to quote from Wisconsin Bulletin No. 225 as follows: "Lime has 

 a definite market value as a fertilizer only when purchased in the 

 form of compounds like carbonates (limestone and marl), sulphate 

 (land plaster), or as quicklime or slaked Ume. It should not be 

 considered as a fertilizer, but as a soil corrective, having as it does a 

 very important and beneficial action on acid soil and the living pro- 

 cesses going on therein. It may also improve the mechanical proper- 

 ties of such soil. 



"Applications of lime in the form of carbonates, quick lime, or 

 slaked lime are necessary to correct soil acidity and will prove es- 



