The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-10-16
LINE WILL BRING
WEALTH TO SOUTH.

The United States department of
agriculture is advising the farmers
of the country to maintain grain and
livestock production, 'as all availa
bic information now indicates that
there will be continued strong de-
mands for these products"
There will also be strong demands
for other farm products, including
the two staple money crops of the
South, cotton and tobacco. Produc-
tion is not keeping pace with increas-
ing consumption, and by giving some
thought to the present and future
needs of this country's growing popu-
lation, we will see the Importance of
making our farms yield more of ev-
erything that can be raised at prof
it.
Therefore, the producing power of
the soil is the first thing to be con-
sidered. If we are to restore mea
dows and pastures broken during war
emergencies, and re-establish crop
rotation to prevent depletion of
SOILS" as the department advises, we
must adopt methods Of soil building
that will insure success. The most
economical way is the use of leg
umes to supply organic matters, and
such crops may be grown successful
ly on most soils that are properly
lined.
Leading agricultural authorities
agree that lining is just as funda-
mental to agriculture as cultivation
Of the soil and fertilization of crops,
and this is attested by the remarka-
bic increase in the use. of agricultur-
al limestone during the past decade
and by actual results obtained by
practical farmers in all sections of
the country-not only in large yields
of clover, alfalfa, and other forage
crops, but of corn, wheat, oats, cot
ton, etc.
Among the resolutions adopted at
a lime conference held recently by
representatives of various expert
ment stations of the South we find,
''The agreement is uninamous that
the soils of the Southeastern States
are seriously deficient in lime, so that
lining is essential to their most prof
liable development and permanent
Improvement
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, noted chem
list and food expert, as we'll as a sue
cessful farmer, says:
"There is scarcely any necessity at
the present time for any further COM
-munications, respecting the value of
lime in agriculture. Both from a
physical and chemical point of view,
It is of supreme Importance. 1t tends
to firm a sandy soil. and loosen a
heavy clay. Leguminous crops can
not be grown without an abundance
of lime. 1t is also useful in many
non-leguminous crops / believe the
potato is the only important crop
where lime is considered harmful.
NY own experience has led me to
abandon entirely the use of burned
or hydrate lime and to use only the
finely ground limestone. 1 realize
that i am paying for the transporta-
tion of a lot of carbonic acid, but l
am not burning the humus out of the
soil. In the case of alfalfa I use two
tons of ground limestone per acre.
Dr.. Wiley answers the ques-
tion so often asked, ''What does lime
do?"
Most farmers know that to grow
legumes they must use lime in some
form, and they are beginning to learn
something concerning it's value in
growing non-leguminous crops.
Limestone IS one of our greatest
natural resources, and while the ex-
pense of establishing and operating
manufacturing plants, as special In
dustries required to supply large de-
mands, has raised the price to
the farmer little above that
for which pulverized limestone
was sold when it was market
ed as by product, 1t is
still the cheapest material that can
be obtained for improving soils and
increasing the yields Of nearly all
crops
The use of lime in crop rotation
will bring wealth to the South. 1t
will insure abundant harvests of for
age and grain, that are necessary to
success in livestock farming and in
crease the acre yields of such mon
ey crops as cotton and tobacco.
I sell Buquo Lime, guaranteed "a
per cent. to SO per cent. pure. Write
me for prices, samples or other in
formation. J. J. HEARD,
Do,oboro 9 n