Contents

Foreword

Chapter 1. Lime Up to Date

Chapter 2. Limestone — The Foremost of Natural Fertilizers

Chapter 3. Limestone — A Fertilizer

Chapter 4. Lime The Soil To Correct Its Major Fertility Deficiencies

Chapter 5. Blast Furnace Slag — A Soil Builder

Chapter 6. Drilling Powdered Agricultural Limestone

Chapter 7. Drilling Fine Limestone for Legumes

Chapter 8. Lime For Backbone!

Chapter 9. It’s the Calcium … Not the Alkalinity

Chapter 10. Purpose of Liming Soil An Enigma

Chapter 11. Calcium as a Factor in Seed Germination

Chapter 12. Now We Know Lime is a Plant Food — Not Merely a Treatment For Acidity

Chapter 13. Soil Acidity is Beneficial

Chapter 14. Soil Alters Calcium Digestibility in Leafy Greens

Chapter 15. We Can Grow Legumes on Acid Soils

Chapter 16. Dangerous Grass

Chapter 17. Should Farmers Receive Tax Allowance for Soil-Building?

Chapter 18. Calcium-Bearing Versus Neutral Fertilizers

Chapter 19. Bugaboo of Soil Acidity Dispelled

Chapter 20. Lime Soil To Feed Crops — Not To Remove Soil Acidity

Chapter 21. Lime-Rich Soils Give Size and Vigor to French Stock

Chapter 22. Lime Your Soils For Better Crops

Chapter 23. Physiological Importance of Calcium in Legume Inoculation

Chapter 24. Calcium and Soil-Borne Nutrients

Chapter 25. Nutritional Role of Calcium in Plants — Prominent in the Non-Legume Crops, Sugar Beets

Chapter 26. Agricultural Limestone — For the Sake of More than its Calcium

Chapter 27. Soil Acidity as Calcium (Fertility) Deficiency

Interlude

Chapter 28. Interrelationships of Calcium, Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Vegetable Crops

Chapter 29. Limestone Mobilizes Other Fertility Too — It’s The Soil that it Feeds Us

Chapter 30. Plants and the Exchangeable Calcium of the Soil

Chapter 31. Calcium Saturation and Anaerobic Bacteria as Possible Factors in Gleization

Chapter 32. Calcium and Hydrogen-Ion Concentration in the Growth and Inoculation of Soybeans

Chapter 33. Growing Legumes on Acid Soils

Chapter 34. Relation of Calcium to the Nodulation of Soybeans on Acid and Neutral Soils

Chapter 35. Liming Alone Will Not Cure a Sick Soil

Chapter 36. Nodulation Modifies Nutrient Intake from Colloidal Clay by Soybeans

Chapter 37. Vegetable Crops in Relation to Soil Fertility — Calcium Contents of Green Leafy Vegetables

Afterword

Bibliography

Index