Show excessive use of limo lime exhausts soil fertility specialist warns other plant foods required red timing can exhaust rather than rebuild b soil fertility unless lime la Is accompanied by the return of a ther other needed plant food elements to th the 0 soll soil declares dr william A al brecht university of missouri up to the present time in our land use says dr albrecht we wa lave have been putting limestone on our 4 J soils under the mistaken belief that its benefits rested only in reducing soil acidity we have gone ahead with our campaign with the idea that line lime Is all that is needed and that if 1 a little Is good more will be ba better this generous use of lime has helped produce more proteins in legume forage end and other crops but the added crop production has used up other plant food elements among these potash has been the most prominent we have credited the lime and the neutralization of the soil with working aking wonders but we have not realized that liming by itself was helping exhaust our soli soil fertility more rapidly he points c out ut it Is essential conclude concludes I 1 lr dr A albrecht to remember that we need potash to make the carbohydrates in the growing plant before we can convert them into protein |