Show lime increases soy bean yield when turned under for soil improvement corn Is much assisted taime lime under soy beans will ft not only increase the yield of hay bay when uia the crop is cut from the land but when the soy beans are turned under for soil boll improvement the yield of corn following fol lowin g la Is also materially increased for two years U 13 white county agent in surry county N 0 working with one of his local banks has conducted a number of soil building tests with some of his alg best farmers these demonstrations had for their purpose to show the effect of timing liming on soy beans and the injurious effect of removing the vinee lines when the land was to be planted to corn lime was ft as used fit the rate of one ton per acre on some borne plots and no lime was used on the other plots F four our hundred pounds of an fertilizer fertiliser liser lizer was used under the crops result of tests As a result of his tests teats mr air while walt states that in plot one where no laule was used the soy eoy beans produced 5 pounds of hay per lier acre the following win g year an average of bushels of corn was produced on in the sume land on plot two where the soy buy beans were limed and cut fur for hui hay pounds was produced aud and tile the following year bushels of corn coin per aero acre was ninde made on this laud land on plot three where the land was limed and the soy bean turned under for soil bull improvement au an average of bushels bushela of corn per acre was secured on plot four where the soy beaus beans were turned under only bushels of corn per acre was produced lime increases yield it will be seen from from this says mr white that lime increased the yield in hay bay 1040 pul ds or enough to pay for the cost eo t of od the mae lime and a small profit in addition the yield of corn the following year was also in increased creased where the soil was limed and the beans turned under there was a substantial and profitable increase Im crease in the corn yield we used laredo soy beans and southern beauty corn in these demonstrations both years were unusually dry find and the soil type ape was the cecil sandy loam |