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Show lfjmMMm csssive Use 0! Limo Eshausts Soil Fertility Sjjalist Warns Cfher piaal Feeds Required i ming can exhaust rather tnan 1 Vm soil fertility, unless lime Is ' rfnied by the return of other , U riant food elements to the i declares Dr. WilUam A. Al- 'ttlt University of Missouri. : ..np' to the present time in our ' lalj use," says Dr. Albrecht, "we ; t been putting limestone on our 1 ' ! 1 . ' i, I ..(.-:jJttf.vww "imJer the mistaken belief that !j benefits rested only in reducing ti acidity- We have gone ahead r;ih our campaign with the idea j:! lime is all that is needed, and it if a little is good, more will be Ktter. 'Tflis generous use of lime has n'xi produce more proteins in June forage and other crops. But : added crop production has used cp ether plant food elements. Among list potash has been the most pminent. ffe have credited the lime and b neutralization of the soil with diking wonders, but we have not relized that liming by itself was tains exhaust our soil fertility n;:e rapidly," he points out. "It is essential," concludes Dr. Al-bteit, Al-bteit, "to remember that we need :aA to make the carbohydrates a the growing plant before we can J cuvert them into protein." |