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Lime Early for
Healthy Root Develop.
Lime is essential to root development. Healthy and well developed roots will make strong plants which will boost yeilds for years to come. Most crops respond favorably to liming. Alfalfa, sweet clover and other crops do best in soils that have a pH that is neutral--7.0--or approaching this figure. The first step todetermining how much of this life-giving and yield-increasing material to apply is to have the soil tested, "this can be Bone by the County Agent, the College of Agriculture or by a private firm. While soil tests are not infallible, they are the best indicator of your soil’s needs.
Be sure to start with representative soil samples. Otherwise, the results may be disappointing and no better than if the material is applied without any guidance. The important thing to remember is that the lime should be applied early--for best results, from six months to a year preceding the seeding of legumes. If it is spread on land which will be planted to row crops for a season, the land preparation and cultivation throughout the season will assure a thorough mixing of the lime with the soil.
Lime alone will not do the job. Fertilizer (N-P-K) and several minor elements incorporated into it or released by the soil as a result of the liming are essential to maximum yields. But lime is the first step. Do it well in advance of planting the crop which requires the most nearly neutral soil.
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