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Show the will gladly loan out to those desiring to read the storv. Call at the Utopia Theatre box office auv . evening and Pct one. Phenomenal Result Obtained at New Jersey Station. than 29 times as many carrots on limed soil as on acid acre ;to the is :soil the phenomenal result obtained A. W. Blair, soil chemist at the by ;New Jersey experiment station, in his More basin faeheh We have a limited number of short story hooks on the famous Paramount picture, that is coming to the Utopia Soon, Wings, that w 'Vegetable Crops Boosted by Lime by Chemist TTTHTAH . experiments with lime on vegetables. Writing In the New Jersey Agriculture, official publication of the experiment station. Professor Blair explains !the methods employed and the results .obtained. Carrots Were Planted. The report deals with four plots. - The soil of plot one Is strongly acid and has received no lime for many years ; plot two received ground limestone at the rate of 1,000 pounds per acre; plot three limestone at the rate of 2,000 pounds per acre, and plot four limestone at the rate of 4.000 pounds per acre (limestone applied at intervals of five years). Carrots were planted on each plot. The yield on the unlimed acid plot was at the rate of only 300 pounds per acre (more than half too small to market). On the other hand, where 2,000 pounds of limestone was used the yield was 8,900 pounds of carrots to the acre, and with 4,000 pounds of limestone the yield was 10,700 pounds to the acre. Beets Also Used. A similar test was conducted with beets. The yields were as follows: Where the soil was strongly acid, very few seeds germinated and the crop was a complete failure; the plot that received 1,000 pounds of limestone gave 3,296 pounds of beets to the acre ; the plot that received 2,000 pounds of limestone gave 8,584 pounds . of beets, and the plot that received 4.000 pounds of limestone gave 7,756 pounds of beets' (beets were weighed without tops). From the results on this plot It would appear that overliming may, in some cases, depress the yield. f Professor Blair In his article suggests that to have their soils, tested vegetable growers would do well to get In touch either with their local county ' agricultural agents or with the experiment station at New Brunswick. He .advises that no charge Is made for service. SUNDAY AND MONDAY November 18 and 19 i To Eradicate Barberry Would Kill Stem Rust Condemned to die, a barberry bush languished in a death cell at the grain show at the Wisconsin state fair, says the Wisconsin Agriculturist All passing through the building were im- -' pressed with the death blows which were being recorded against the deadly enemy of the grain fields. The barberry is the intermediate host of the black stem rust which, in i humid seasons, works such havoc in wheat and oat fields. To eradicate the 'barberry would go a long way towards .eliminating the huge annual loss. The methods being employed by state and federal officials concerned .with barberry eradication is a systematic survey of location followed up by heavy application of common salt at the base of the plant The skeletons of once thriving bushes give a grim reminder of the effective methods g employed. BIG SPECIAL . , ! ; be-Jln- Destroy all old plants as soon as harvest is over. During fall, winter and early spring months, rye furnishes good pasture . . jor hogs. ; Admission 35c and 15c |