Show I Kentucky Tears Up Stone Fences Pulverized Limestone Need Need- Needed Needed ed by So Soil to Stimulate Many Crops Craps They are tearing up the farm tarm fences to make tho the crops grow crow In Kentucky s B famous blue grass region t I And while that statement may appear silly at first glance elance It Is exactly what Is hop hap hap pening The explanation Is sImple The blue grass soil soli under cultivation now for tor years yeRn has grown crown acid for tor or want ot of lime There are hundreds of ot miles mUes ot of picturesque old stone fences some someI built a n century ago aco winding around I the farms of ot this region and and the I stone Is limestone There you are ar I l All user oter central Kentucky and In InI Inmany Inmany Inmany I many other sections of ot the state lime limestone limestone limestone I stone are busy Grinding Ui Ui- these u-these I these relics reports 0 C A Lewis In inthe Inthe the April Issue of Th The Tho farm arm Journal the thousands of ot tons of ot fence tence stones have been crushed and spread upon the soil soli In the last year icar ear earThe The movement began more than a year ago aso when a n survey surrey of ot Bourbon county by the county farm tarm agent P I R n Wallington sho showed cd that clo closer cloer er and other legumes lec so much needed for tor the th tine fine horses borses and cattle which make mabe the region famous could no longer bt bl I grown profitably County Agent Starts Start Movement is allington laid his facts before a committee of ot lando landowners ners and the re- re result re result sult suit was 14 limestone crushers oper operating I alon along alone the fences many of ot which had already tumbled down with age I and been overgrown o with briars and bushes In nearby rayette Fayette county Jonas Well Veil a prominent landowner tool took the lead crushing hundreds of rods of ot the stone fences around his lands spreading the lime on his soil soli and and Increasing his crop yields In some cases per cent With Pith such sucha a profitable example before them oth other other er farmers and counties have e taken up the movement mo rapidly Most lost of the fences were built ot of soft limestone which now requires tittle labor to make male It ready rendy for tor the pul et The Farm arm Jour Journal s correspondent The crusher Is moved along the fence tence rows where the rock Is put Into It at a minimum ot of labor In some cases a rod of ot stone fence will make male five Ove tons of ground limestone Cost of Limestone Since limestone can be from the fences for at least 1 a Il ton less than It can be obtained from the Kentucky quarries that means that thata n a rod of ot stone stolle fence Is worth w orth 5 3 And this 5 a rod roll will more moro than pay the cost of ot putting pulling up a n modern wo woven en wire fence tinny Many miles mUes of ot such mod modern modera modern era ern supported with Iron or concrete posts have ha taken talen the llie place ot of the tumbling rows of ot stones A second consideration which has hns made the demolition of ot the old stone fences popular Is that attempts to re reI I iW It t r them after otter a century of ot wear e base ha ed presed both costly and Ise he |