Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1917 — Farmers Are Invited to Witness Soil Test. [ARTICLE]

Farmers Are Invited to Witness Soil Test.

The office of the Jasper County Better aFrmiing Association has been equipped with apparatus for making the Truog test ror soil acidity which is much more accurate than any oth er test in common use. Henry Paulus, president of the association, has invited all farmers interested in having tests made to bring in samples to the office in the court house next Saturday afternoon between 1:30 and 4:00 o'clock. He intends to make the matter a sort of a “bee’ so that persons interested in the matter may talk over thedr experiences in handling acid soils and listen to a talk by the county agent on the subject. In taking samples, the surface half inch of soil on a suspected spot in the field should be scraped away and then a small spade full of earth should be removed and di opped into a paper bag. The matter of soil acidity has attracted a great deal of attention in the last few years. As reliable tests of suspected fields are the first steps in improvement, the association has started an idea which will undoubtedly grow tn popularity.