further increased if the supply of lime is to be maintained at level reasonably sufficient to enable war-time agricultural requirements to be met and satisfactory food production obtained from the additional arable acreage. 6. The main obstacle to a further extension of ground lim### stone production is the uncertainty in the minds of most of the established lime producers as to the future of the agricultural market. They feel, not without justification, that the farmers'### demand will drop considerably when the lime subsidy comes to an as it is at present due to do in 1944.