Show soy bean responds to soil sweetener limestone when added to manure found to greatly boost the yield by C J badger C college elege of uni v 0 of nola 0 service belleve Uel leve it or not soy beans which are often spoken of as an acid tolerant crop will produce from two to five times as much hay to 0 tilt acre when riven given the benefit of limestone on some of the light colored soils evidence showing the lie t value 0 of an application of the soil sweetener tener Is revealed in the results of four years of tests at two soil experiment fields of rather low productive levels maintained tal ned by the state university at one field where the soil Is a light gray slit silt loam the use of manure gave a yield of pounds of soy bean hay to the acre but when limestone was wa applied in addition to manure the th yield of bean hay bay was 1700 1 7 pounds an acre the field that received no treatment returned about the sault same as as where manure had been spread tile increase resulting remitting from limestone when it was wag applied in addition to manure nu re amounted to I 1 ago pounds or more than a halt half a ton to the acre another experiment field consisting consi sting of a lellow gray slit silt loam gave somewhat better soil sell with will i no treatment returned return ed 1010 10 10 rounds 0 of soy boy bean hay to the acre the manure t treatment reat ment improved the yield to an average ot of 1420 pounds and applications of both manure and limestone jumped the harvest to pounds or practically a ton and a half of hay to the acre the response to manure over no treatment amounted t to pounds while the response to manure and limestone over manure alone was 1500 pounds an acre however horev er manure and limestone gave returns of 1910 or nearly a ton to the acre over the plot which lid did not receive any treatment |