Show ke kentucky stucky tears up stone fences pulverized limestone need ed by soil to stimulate many crops they are tearing up the farm fences to make the crops grow in kentuck Ys famous bluegrass blue grass region 1 and while that statement may appear silly at first glance it Is exactly what Is happening the explanation li Is simple the bluegrass blue grass grasa soil under cultivation now for 1 W y years a a rg h has as grown a add cid tor for want of time lime there are hundreds of mues miles of picturesque old stone fences some built a century ago winding around the farms of this region and the stone Is limestone there you arel are I 1 all over central kentucky and in many other sections of the state time lime stone are busy grinding u of these relics reports C A lewis in the april issue of tho th farm journel thousands of tons tona of fence stones have been crushed and spread upon the soil in the last year the movement began more than n year ago when a survey of bourbon county by the county farm agent 11 1 li it showed that clover arid and other legumes so much needed for the fine horses and cattle which nake make the region famous could no at be grown profitably county agent starts start movement wallington laid his facts before it a committee of landowners and the result was 14 limestone crushers crus liers operating along the fences many of which had already tumbled down with age and been overgrown with briars arid and bushes in nearby fayette county jonas well a prominent landowner took the lead crushing hundreds ol of rods of the stone fences around hi his lands spreading the time lime on his soil and increasing his crop yields in some cases per cent with such a profitable example before them oth er farmers and counties have taken up the movement rapidly most of the fences were built 0 of soft limestone which now requires little labor to make it ready for the pulver izet explains the farm journals correspondent the crusher Is moved along the fence rows where the rock to ig put into it at a minimum of labor in some cases a rod of stone atone fence will make five tons of ground limestone cott cost of alir tone since limestone iu n be crushed from the fences fi for ii at least 1 a ton iab less than it can be obtained j from the kentucky quarries that means that a rod of stone fence Is worth 5 and this 5 a rod will more than pay the cost of putting up a modern woven wire fence many miles of such mud mod ora ra fencing supported with iron brou or concrete posts have taken the place of the tumbling rows of stones A second consideration which lias ills made tile the demolition of the old savie fences popular Is that attempts to re pair them after a century 0 of wear have proved both costly and In effect ive itt |