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Title: Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement

Author: Alva Agee

Release Date: May 8, 2008 [EBook #25389]

Language: English

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Right Use of Lime In Soil Improvement

_By_ ALVA AGEE

[Illustration: Applying Lime]

Secretary New Jersey State Department of Agriculture

Formerly director of agricultural extension in the Pennsylvania State
College and New Jersey State College of Agriculture.

_Illustrated_

NEW YORK
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY

LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LIMITED

1919

Copyright 1919, by
ORANGE JUDD COMPANY

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Printed in U. S. A.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

1. INTRODUCTION 1

2. THE LIME IN SOILS 4

3. SOUR SOILS 10

4. EVIDENCES OF ACIDITY 15

5. TESTS FOR ACIDITY 20

6. SOURCES OF LIME 24

7. DEFINITIONS 28

8. GROUND LIMESTONE 33

9. STORING LIME IN THE SOIL 38

10. FRESH BURNED LIME 44

11. BURNING LIME 49

12. LIME HYDRATE 53

13. OTHER FORMS OF LIME 57

14. MAGNESIAN LIME