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)osteas Saturday night at a >lrthday party at the fire hall n honor of her son Ronnie Morris' 17th birthday. There vere approximately 35 present and the honoree received nany nice presents.
Flint Hill News
Robert L. Massle, Jr. of Richmond was the week-end guest of his mother Mrs. F. W. Spalding. Week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Lillard were their laughter Miss Shelby Jean Lit lard, Miss Donna Ostrander md Clyde Lillard, Jr., all of Alexandria. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brady ind Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brady of Arlington were guests for the week-end of Mr. ind Mrs. M. H. Brady. Mrs. M. R. Bradford, III vas a Sunday visitor of Mr. ind Mrs. M. R. Bradford, Jr. ;nroute to Bridgewater College where she is enrolled. Wendell Dale Welch returned Saturday to the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. R. ivelch, from Warren Memorial Hospital where he had seen a patient since Thursiay. Last Monday Mr. and Mrs. W. R, Welch and son William R,, Jr. accompanied
VPI Test* 84,000
Soil Samples
About 84,000 samples were :ested last year in the Virginia Cooperative Extension Service’s soil testing laboratory at Virginia Tech, says George W. Hawkins, associate Extension agronomist at the university. The county which sent in the most samples was Southampton — with 4,050. Nansemond County sent in 3,098 samples and Washington County sent In 3,062. Since 1938, farmers and homeowners in the Old Dominion have been depending on the lab to tell them what's wrong with their soils. Persons wanting their soils tested request boxes and record sheets with instructions from their county Extension agricultural agents. They then take samples from their land as directed, place them in the boxes and return the boxes to the Extension agents. The Extension agents mail the samples into thtfsotl tftSting'lJrb^ oratory. After the tests have been completed, the record sheets containing results are mailed back to the Extension agents, who then make recommendations to the persons who submitted the samples.
Total soil samples sent to Virginia .Tech last year by Rappahannock County was 38Z
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