From “Carolina Farm
Notes” by F.H. Jeter, Nov. 1940 issue of the Southern Planter
When Alex Taylor of Carteret County received his grant-of-aid
limestone last winter, he was so disappointed in its appearance that he refused
to apply it to the land. He said it looked like beach sand. It took his
neighbor, Will Hardesty, three weeks to persuade him to apply it to his soil.
At that, he only half-heartedly put it on a square of land near the house.
He planted that field in peanuts and when he cut the tops
for hay this fall, he found that the limed land produced about four times hay
as much as land where no limestone was used.
He and Mr. Hardesty then examined the plants for nuts and
found equally as much difference. Now Mr. Taylor says one never can tell how
good a material is by looking at it. This stuff that resembles beach soil is
exactly what his land needed.
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