Show 1 Kentucky Te Tears Tears' rs V Up Stone Fences Fences' I Pulverized Limestone Needs Need Need- s ed v cilY k by Soil SoH to Stimulate te Many Crops They are tearing up the farm fences to tomake make the crops grow In K Kentucky's famous bl grass blue egrass r region glon 1 I f And while I that statement may appear s silly lly at I It Is what Is hap hap- hapIp p The explanation Is simple The bl bu grass soil un under uner er cultivation v no now for years has hns grown f for r want of Ume There are hundreds of miles old stone fences some built a It century ago winding around m o of this region region and and the I stone Is limestone There you are arch All over central Kentucky and In Inmany I ninny many other otiler sections ns of the state limestone lime lime- stone are bus busy grinding up u. these relics reports C. C A. A Lewis inthe Inthe in inthe the April Issue of The Tho Farm Journal Thousands of ot tons of fence stones hv have have- been crushed and spread upon the soil In the last year The movement began begun more than n a nye ye year r ago when n a survey of Bourbon county fy by the county farm m agent P. P It R. R Wellington ri s showed l wed that clover and other legumes so much needed for the fin find horses and cattle which make male th the famous could no longer b i grown p profitably o County o Starts Movement Wellington WallIngton laid his bis facts acts before a committee of landowners and the result result re re- re- re sult suit was 14 14 limestone crus crushers oper- oper ng the fences many of ot which had lind nire already lly dy tumbled d down wn with ng age and nna been overgrown o with briars and bushe bushes In nearby Fayette county Jonas Well Weil a It prominent landowner took the lead lend crushing hundreds of rods rods' of ot the stone fences around his lands spreading adIng tIle the lime hime on his soil and Increasing Ills His crop yIelds In some some cases cases pe per cent With such sucha a 11 profitable example before them oth other er r farmers and counties have ha taken up the ilie movement rapidly I Most of f the f fences were were built of soft soft- limestone which now flow now requires labor to make male It re ready dy for thep the p ter explains The Farm Journ Jour- Jour n correspondent d Pt The IThe crusher IS Iff moved d along Iong the fence rows where the rock is put Into it at a n minimum d or labor Into In some cases a rod of ot stone t ch c will make five tons of ground limestone tone Cost of Limestone I Since limestone can be crushed from the uie fences for at nt least 1 a n ton ton re less It Iti Itcan can be obtained from the tue tueK K K Kentucky lucky quarries that means that n. n aroll arOd rod of df stone fence Tence Is worth 5 And Anda tA 5 Q Q a rod rol will lIL more mor t than an pay the cost of putting up p a n modern woven- woven wire fence Many miles mUes of such modem modern mod mod- em ern ern fencing supported with Iron or posts have baye taken the place of ot the tumbling rows of ot stones AT A s ond consideration which has hashe made the he demolition of the old st stone ne Pc s popular Is Js that attempts to re re- Jl century of of wear hil have ilc ed proved both costly and lye ive |