>Anyway, I was reading those "Little House on the Prairie" books to >my daughter at the time. The early books were full of wonderful >lore from the 1800s. I remember a saying which went "Lime makes the >fathers rich and the sons poor." Which I took to mean that the >calcium would make many minerals available in the short term, but >with repeated use would exhaust the soil. I have no direct >experience of such repeated use of lime (anyone here?), but it seems >that this is precisely what the Albrecht system promotes.
I saw this quote in an Australian publication recently. The way that I've heard it through US BD channels is 'GYPSUM makes fathers rich and sons poor.' The gypsum comment makes a lot more sense to me, but I have to wonder. -Allan
