'• Qualify, Not Color aglime by color—not by quality,
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equivalent. The highest quality other colo/is an inferior proch mat . enal tes |® cl CoS r 3 material °''®*' another, thisi the
runs up to about 109%. CaCO 3 uct to him. In one area farmers e r r*rn ? V c -They
equivalent. This is due to the demand a white aglime, in an- Ca *T°n an( ? the ted 95 r CaCO 3 should ask the pioducet oi sell
fact that magnesium carbonate other area they prefer the grav ?" d all coloi ; s were reduced 10 er , of th ® material for the chem
(MgCo3) has a higher atomic material, and in other areas tbe same fineness Tiuckeis ical and mechanical specihca
w eight than calcium carbonate some other color will be called t 0 th , IS pUnt "°! lld not tlons of lhe availabl ® J naler,als
(CaCOS) and hence the MgCO 3 for based on personal prejudice J? ke , the ied “fjeiial because and then be guided by the
js given a weight of 1.18 in con- and preconceived notions the farmers would not accept it, chemical anabsis the fineness
\ prime it to CaCO q T p , even though its neutializing and the puce of the product,
r imooinnoo •„ , * n dlscussul g this personal value was over 15% higher than The material should be selected
m , c ° lo , r preference with a quairyman the white material which the for its price per unit of soil
f indicated that h,s farmm „ ant K i. i.eutr.tang or plant lood value
oiacK ana including piue, quarry had three predominant 4 , ,
brown, gray, green, red, yellow, colors of limestone off-white, While peisonal piefereive *^ ie S ou buying yonr aglime by
etc. Many a farmer today buys dark gray and red. The whitest may lead faimers to select one color or quality?
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