The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-02-22
WINTERS LEGACY
1t Leaves Riches In the Soil Which
Can't Be Bought.
LIME CAN HELP tbs ACTION.

Lime Up to the Limiting Factor" Not
8eyond-After This Help Out With
Manure and Phosphates--lt Is Only
In That Way You Can Get the Best
Returns For the Cash investment.
Some men are dead lucky. They
lust sit tight, doing nothing in par
ticular to get along, when a plum
falls into their laps out Of clear Sky.
People suddenly begin TO take liking
to some corner of a town Nobody
knows why. Old residenters leave the
homes that were always good enough
for them, before, for houses with mod
ern improvements in the new section.
So real estate booms, the laud-poor
get rich and the property of the thrifty
of former days, runs down. New rail
road branches are spreading over the
country and cheap farms become
valuable, because the getaway for
general crops or market and orchard
specialties is easy. No extra horses
and wagons have to be kept for long
hauls and the children have q better
chance for good schools.
r Most Of us get the eo-by from for
tune and it's natural to get sour es-
pecially over the good luck Of those
who have never deserved it. But
what's the use? To cultivate a bilious
habit only makes every days work
grow harder.
All very well for "Cheerfuluess Socie-
ties" to preach the New Thought"
and that kind of thing. The trouble
with them is that they just talk and
never give practical idea.
There are lots of things that bring
increase, which we do not earn Look
out Of the window at that frozen plow-
ed field, the clods thawing and crack
ing in the sunshine. 1t is working and
making plant food for next seasons
growth. 1t is the winter with its Gle
ments of hard weather that crack am
leach the soil particles for new sup
plies for further crops We can figure
the value Of that unpaid action Of frost
and thaw in dollars and cents, for it
is what keeps a sufficient supply of
plant food available in the soil to make
about twelve or more bushels Of wheat,
year after year Deduct from this the
actual cost Of blowing and seeding
and what is left, say the value of eight
bushels per acre, is your uneaned in
crement.
Well, it is not much and then every
body gets it, so what is the use? Just
this, that you can bait this hook of
winter action for fishing more fertility
tout of the soil, with common sense,
and that is something that everybody
has not got. Just sce Try to wash
axle grease off your hands in clear wa
ter How much good does rubbing do
toward getting them clean? But, use
soap or put ammonia in the water.
How about it then? Now, that is
chemical action, it gets dirt loose. And
chemical action gets plant food loose.
Ammonia would do it, I've would do
it, but they cost too much. For price
and results there is only lime, and the
strongest is the cheapest. Lime and
winter weather for getting the biggest
unearned increase from the soil. But
mind you, they will only get out the
plant food that is ready for solution
1t may not make more than fair crop
More lime than the right amount may
force a larger one, but generally it does
not pay, That is where ezra plant
food comes in, to give a better return
for your labor. Lime up to what the
professors call the limiting factor"
not beyond Then help out with ma
nure and phosphates. Then and only
then will these costly additions give
you the best return for the cash in
vestment. That is profit Winter
weather and common sense give you
all of natures unearned increase and
that plus profit spells prosperity.