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The Trade in Agricultural Limestone 
Seldom in this country has any agricul¬ 
tural product grown in popularity as has 
agricultural ground limestone. In 1011 
only 174.200 tons were sold, while seven 
years later, in 1918, sales amounted to 
1,001,018 tons, an increase of 627 per 
cent. A time has now been reached when, 
if this growth is to continue, the business 
must be put on a stronger economic basis 
than it has been in the past. 
The first agricultural limestone to be 
used in any quantity was furnished by 
quarries producing limestone for indus¬ 
trial purposes. These quarries were both¬ 
ered by the accumulation of material that 
was too small for their use. The discov¬ 
ery of the value of raw limestone in the 
soil gave them a chance to get rid of 
some of this material. They were glad to 
give it to the farmers if they would only 
haul it away. As there was only a small 
percentage of material in it. fine enough 
to be of any agricultural value, the farm¬ 
ers could not afford to haul it very far, 
and only small amounts were disposed of 
in this manner. The quarry operators 
then conceived the idea of grinding these 
screenings, and so make them more valu¬ 
able to the farmers. As the one object 
was to dispose of this waste material, the 
price to the farmer only covered the cost 
of grinding, and little attention was paid 
to its quality. 
From this time on the use of ground 
limestone increased rapidly. Many others, 
not realizing that the producers were only 
charging the cost of grinding, opened 
plants. In this way the supply was for 
a time kept abreast of the demand ; but 
one by one these agricultural limestone 
plants, finding it impossible to meet the 
prices of the industrial quarries, dropped 
out, and today the demand far exceeds 
the supply. Practically all of these in¬ 
dustrial quarries, having a quality of 
stone even fairly suited to agricultural 
use, are now grinding their full output 
of screenings into agricultural limestone. 
These methods of production have led 
the people to believe that, ground lime¬ 
stone is a cheap product, and actual val¬ 
ues in increased crop yields have been 
lost sight of. From now on. if there is to 
be an adequate supply, the business must 
be handled in a different way. It is no 
longer the business of selling a limited 
waste product, but special preparation of 
an important, article, which of necessity 
must cost more. The manufacturer must 
receive a fair price and thus enable the 
agricultural limestone business to get on 
its own feet. If such a price is paid, 
farmers need not worry about getting 
their full supply. R. w. 
Cabbage in the Cellar 
You recently had an article on storing 
apples in pits, and the writer closed with 
a remark about storing cabbage in the 
same way, but that he had not yet stored 
his cabbage. In this connection I wish to 
state for the benefit of that writer and 
others interested, that while visiting our 
curb market one day this Fall I over¬ 
heard a farmer telling'a customer that if 
he would take the hard head cabbages he 
was selling and wrap each head in paper, 
pack in a barrel and store in a cool place 
in cellar, he would guarantee them to 
“keep perfectly until next May.” The 
thing looked so simple aud good to me 
that I went home and gathered the few 
heads I had in my garden, both hard and 
soft heads, and treated them as he direct¬ 
ed, putting the solid heads in the bottom 
of barrel and soft ones on top. to be used 
first, and so far they are keeping well. 
Those we are using are as nice as when 
first picked, so I pass this on to your 
readers, that they who wish to experi¬ 
ment may do so. If it is a success, as I 
think it is, it will do away with a lot of 
dirt and mess, roots and rotten leaves, 
and save a lot of hard work. I am just a 
new subscriber and the number referred 
to was the first one I read, and after 
reading I placed it on the table in our 
office waiting room and someone must 
have been interested in it and carried it 
off. I hope it may be the means of get¬ 
ting you another subscription, c. R. m. 
Pennsylvania. 
It will, of course, depend on the cellar. 
The plan would not work right where 
there is a furnace or other heater. This 
would make the air too warm for any 
vegetable except squash. In a cool cel¬ 
lar, where the temperature keeps uni¬ 
formly low, solid heads of cabbage would 
keep well on this plan. 
It appears that a young clergyman was 
temporarily filling a city pulpit, and in 
his prayer he said: “May the brother 
who ministers to this flock be filled full 
of fresh veal and new zigor.”—Boston 
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Don’t be satisfied with merely statements of what the tractor will or 
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The story of any one of thousands of old OilPull tractors, scattered 
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"Dakota, which was bought nine years ago. Its owners have always 
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threshing, operating feed mill, etc. 
for seven years it performed faultlessly without the need of a single 
important repair! It is now nine years old and not half “worked 
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are still on the jobl 
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Ask your OilPull dealer about other OilPull features that are as out¬ 
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