Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Soils Much Improved. [ARTICLE]

Soils Much Improved.

Indianapolis, July 25. —-Soil survey experts employed by the state geologist and the United States government have reported to Edward Barrett, state geologist, they have virtually completed their work in Tipton, Boone and Montgomery counties. They will be sent in a few days' into Hamilton, Hendricks, Vermilion and Parke counties, to work the remainder of the summer. The soils of Tipton and Boone counties have been reported much Improved under careful cultivation, but the report has It the soils are capable of producing greater crops if more attention were given to proper fertilization. No report of conditions found in Montgomery county has been received by the state geologist.