Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement, by Alva Agee
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Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement, by Alva Agee
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"[...] Blue grass, the clovers and timothy give a good account of themselves in a contest with sorrel and plantain where lime is abundant. This does not mean that the seeds of these weeds may not be so numerous that an application of lime cannot cause the clover and grasses immediately to take the ground to the exclusion of other plants, but it is true that the crowding process will continue until the time comes in the crop rotation that these weeds cease to be feared, and clean sods can be made. It is the absence of lime that permits such weeds to maintain their reputation for good fighting qualities. Limed and Unlimed Ends of a Plot at the Ohio Experiment Station Limed and[...]".
Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement, by Alva Agee - Published on: 2015-03-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .12" w x 6.00" l, .18 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 52 pages
Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement, by Alva Agee About the Author Books by Alva Agee (1858-1943) included Crops And Methods For Soil Improvement, Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement, Potato Culture, and The Essentials of Soil Fertility.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Kindle version of Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement By Raven Published in 1919, this is a good little book about soil augmentation. It does exactly what the title says: talks about the use of lime for improving soil quality. Included is a section on testing soil PH and discussions on how different kinds of lime are (were?) produced. Application techniques and a discussion on several plants that especially benefit from lime are also included. It seemed to me that there was a special focus on pasture and hay crops like clover and grasses.In the Kindle version of this book, the index is an interactive table which allows you to easily find the section you are interested in, however, the illustrations listed are not included in the kindle version.I would recommend this book to those interested in history of agriculture as well as modern day organic farmers. There is a lot of relevant information in this book that is still applicable to those working with non-chemical methods of farming today.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A classic that's still relevant today By magellan The Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement was one of the many publications in basic agriculture that came out of the early 20th century research by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture at various experimental stations around the U.S., some of which had been established in the late 19th century, especially in states like New York and Ohio. By the early 20th century, many of these stations were literally booming with projects intended to help the average farmer and improve land use and crop yields.Their influence was enormous and many other countries and researchers (such as the great agricultural botanist, geneticist, and horticulturalist, Nicholai I. Vavilov in Russia, who eventually oversaw hundreds of agricultural stations all across Russia in the middle of the last century) were influenced to adopt a similar approach. At the time Russian crop yields were only 25% of what was being achieved in Western Europe and the U.S. By implementing a few basic improvements Vavilov was able to achieve a several fold increase in crop yields, saving millions of people from starvation. In one of history's greatest ironies, Vavilov died of starvation in prison during one of Stalin's purges.I got this book as a freebie on my new Kindle and started reading the first section just to start learning how to use and navigate on the device, and despite the archaic writing style it was obvious the information was as important and relevant today as it was a hundred years ago and I found it was interesting enough to read the entire book, which is only 120 pages. Written without the use of math or chemistry, it explains in language any farmer could understand exactly what they need to know about such topics as testing and determining soil acidity, lime load per acre, types of lime materials (ground or pulverized limestone, fresh-burned lime, air-slaked lime, magnesian lime, hydrated lime, calcium hydroxide, caustic lime, etc.) optimal calcareous grain size, diagnostic plants for acidic conditions (red clover, aslike clover, sorrel, plantain, etc.), and even the local economics of small, economical limestone rock crushers and grinders for small community use that had just been developed at the time.In a way the book transported me back to an earlier time when the U.S. was still mainly an agricultural economy. Already by the 1890s, amazingly, the U.S. (along with Germany), was a leading producer of electrical machinery and chemicals, but it wasn't until 1926 that the U.S. reached and surpassed the demographic milestone where half of the population was now living in the cities vs. the farms.The book explains that in contrast to soils west of the Rockies, which are often calcareous, loamy, well drained soils with greater amounts of lime, that mid-western and eastern soils often being clay derived are more impacted, nutrient poor, and lime deficient. I was used to the soils in California and kept wondering why my lawn was harder to maintain even with the much greater amount of rain on the east coast and this book explained why. Weeds such as plantain, sorrel, and several different species of clover are much more likely to invade and crowd out grass under lime deficient conditions, and now I know my lawn needs an application of lime as well as fertilizer.As a city boy and engineer all I knew was that lime-deficient clay soils were good for making bricks and pots and high tech things like ceramic jet engine turbine blades. The author points out that the soils will still be deficient and acidic even with adequate applications of phosphorus and nitrogen, which I was already doing, and things still weren't right with my lawn which was being invaded by crab grass, which was much less aggressive on my lawn back in California. After reading this book I realized that I was missing the lime and Agee points out that as many as 9 out of 10 land holdings in the mid-west and east are deficient in lime compared to places in the west like California.California has its own problems, though, such as large areas of serpentine rock derived soils. Serpentine soils are magnesium rich but deficient in other nutrients and require the correct treatment to be productive much as many eastern plots do. In California there are vast stands of so-called "pygmy forests" especially in Mendocino County, whose trees have been stunted by the serpentine soil. These areas have a unique ecology of plants that tolerate these conditions, but you can see the effect of the poor soil on the stunted trees, which can be hundreds of years old and only 40 or 50 feet high.But getting back to the eastern soil conditions, knowing a bit of historical geology, I had wrongly assumed that the soils in the east, being derived from mountains that eroded hundreds of millions of years earlier than the Sierras where I used to live, that all the nutrients would have dissolved out of the rock long ago and be available to any plants. Well, that is true, except that since calcium carbonate minerals are more easily dissolved, eroded, and washed away by water action, the lime had disappeared due to normal drainage a long time ago. So much for what I knew about agricultural chemistry. :-) Now I know that a simple application of the right kind of lime will solve my problem.Overall, this is a still a great classic in basic agriculture which manages to pass along a great detail of useful information without being overly technical. Despite the boring sounding subject it was actually an interesting read and relevant to my own situation even though I'm not a farmer.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A good historical perspective on liming soil By William D Detlefsen This is a great book if you are interested in the historical development of agricultural thinking. It is written in about 1916 when the main virtue of liming was believed to be pH control and before William Albrect. It provides a timeless description of various grades of lime. Information that most people have forgotten.
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