Show urges generous use of lime for alfalfa clover the time lias has come coine when much larger use of lime for clover and alfalfa can no longer be put off according to prof A F Gu gustafson at cornell to do so he said would result in failure or low yields of these high protein hay crops cloi claier er and alfalfa are important aids in maintaining of other feed crops and in economical feeding of dairy cows even the ancients k knew new something about the benefits of lime on certain crops and it Is not a new practice in new york state the soils of a large part of the state need lime at the present time for good growth of red ant and alside alsike clover and for such crops as alfalfa sweet clover cab cabbage liage and cauliflower in 1921 new york farmers used tons of soil liming materials by 1930 tills this had climbed to tons but since then the annual lime tonnage has declined rapidly to tons partly estimated in 1934 economic conditions explain this severe drop la in the use of lime |