South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-01-21
LIMESTONE PRICES
DROP, NEAR LEVEL
OF PRE- WAR BASIS
Wide Cut in Quotations En-
cOurages Liberal Use of
Product This Year.
By 1. ). MATTHEWS.
Agent, Pulaski County.

Four or five years ago, consider
able interest was manifested in usins
limestone as a stepping stone to
growing more legumes in Pulaski
county. The work progressed very
we'll for two years. but was retarded
by the war and the tremendous adj
vance IN freight rates. For some
time it did not look like the farmer
would be warranted i'm applying
limestone with the certainty that he
would have to pay Tor it with pro-
ducts that would bring a somewhat
lower than war price
During 1918, 112 carloads of lime
stone were spread on various farms
IN the county. And with all candor
may say that those farms that go.
among the best farms i'm the county
at this time.
More Clover h Need.
Lining has not progressed fast
enough. Perhaps the only way to
get limestone more generally used
would be TO take all the backaches
cut of the spreading it. But results
have shown that on the soils I'M Pu-
lasld county that nave not been
lined, the acreage of clover. alfalfa
and the like is getting smaller every
year. Albert Brucker. on an old
held that the former owner said h4
was selling because il would not
grow clover like it once would
spread hydrated lime and had a 125
percent stand of clover In fact
with few exceptions. the only 100
percent stands of clover that the
writer has seen i'm tins county were
grown ON lined land and this condi-
ton gets worse instead of better
John Hun suggests shat we use uu-
refined sugar ON sour land but that
doesn't seem TO turn the trick.
The writer recently received let
ter from lime company i'm which
was stated. "this company is hungry
fer business and udging by the
price the statement was true.
Through freight rate and plant re-
auctions. lime is AGAIN getting where
it can be used with the prospect OF
profit horizon And this spring
and summer. the use of This material
p
Hog Average Improves.
And so we might go ON and re-
count many other little things THAI
started but a few years ago which
have now become a matter of daily
use on every farm and i'm the home
! The person who says he hasn't seen
any improvements simply has seen
1 it but doesn't recognize 81. Take tho
matter of better hogs. Tho pis clubs
/ did a lot for the cause of better
hogs i'm Pulaski couutya IL did no,
greatly increase the number OF
purebred herds no one argued that
it would but il die pat a lot OF
good bears at the head Of mOngrel
droves Almost every shipper %
whom 1 have talked and practically
all of the auctioueers say that they
see Improvement i'm tho general run
Z of boss and those offered M the
/ far msllcs.
This reminds me. a little whiP
ago. a man said to me. You made
a lot of noise when the pix club
bows made a profit but YOU didn't
tell them about it when they lost
money. For the hIst time. 3 pub
I licly admit hat I'm the case In point,
I I was actually ashamed OF some II
the parents and others in that COM
munity who allowed these hogs 10
be bought for the figure they were.
Buyers. even good neighbors, seemed
/ 90 be hunting bargains that day re-
gardiess of values. But folks are
naturally panlcky when the tobog-
gan starts. they set behind it TO give
/ IL an extra push.