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The toil tests are made in laboratories at Virginia Tech land returned to the County Agent for making recommendations for the amount of lime to be used and the analysis as well as amount of fertiliser to be used. To recommendations requires
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protation of results of soil tests in relationship to the crop to be grown, soil type, field production and treatment history.
Since this responsibility upon county agents, I naturally am most anxious to make sound recommendations that will not only satisfy the ACP committee but the farmer as well. Both having finances at stake; both! want and need to get tire desired results. ' ir :‘Unfortunately
the resnljts of soil tests and the field production and treatment history ha4 not jibed in better than fifty per cent of the cases, thus respiting in the possibility of my recommendations being fifty per I cent off which could mean the spepdingf
of $7000 to $7500 for practically naught Fields that have hid no lime in recent years and ‘have been yielding poorly simply shouldn’t show a high pH, nor a high calcium or magnesium! content Tet analysis results are coming in showing a pH of (J to 7.0 and having "High" to ‘fVery High” calcium jand magnesium content, when Ipplication Of no lime was reported, either should fields having no, hr even light applications, of fertilizer that have been giving poor yields (other than yields affected by weather conditions) show high phosphate
as preand potash content Yet, viously stated in this column, 11 soil tests received in one ; day showed that such was the caps in five of the results, or that results were too low, or too high, when considering the relative hjigh amounts of fertiliser or Umejthat had boon applied in recent years. The next day seventeen tests came in. Beaults of ten aoeimod off. In two day* 15“ out of M results definitely looked wrong*
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