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Re: Farming Loads

Mont Switzer <ZOE@...>
 

I SUPPOSE AGRICULTURAL LIME CAN COME FROM JUST ABOUT ANY QUARRY. IN
MICHIGAN THERE IS A LARGE QUARRY THAT SPECIALIZES IN AGRICULTURAL LIME ABOUT
50 MILES NORTH OF GRAND RAPIDS. THEY RUN YEAR ROUND, BUT MOST OF THEIR
SHIPPING OCCURS DURING THE PLANTING SEASON. MONT SWITZER

----- Original Message -----
From: JGG KahnSr <jacekahn@...>
To: <STMFC@...>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 4:47 PM
Subject: [STMFC] Farming Loads


There is a photo in Ed Lewis's Arcade and Attica book of six or eight
woodside gondolas (the lead one is an Erie) and a large placard announcing
"a trainload of Michigan limestone for Wyoming County agriculture" (or
something very similar), taken in the 1920's. I conjecture some lime came
as a by-product of quarrying limestone, some may have been a primary
product
of a rock-crusher operation.
Jace Kahn

Does anybody know the source of lime for agricultural use?
It too is a fertilizer, but has to be applied very sparingly. I've
been
told it
will 'burn' the soil.
Clark Propst
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