Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 13, Number 21, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 April 1943 — VOC. AG. BOYS AT WORK [ARTICLE]

VOC. AG. BOYS AT WORK

The freshman and sophomore vocational agriculture boys have been devoting two periods for one day in each of the past two weeks to testing samples of soil taken off their own farms and gardens for acidity, phosphorus and potassium. These boys, according, to their teacher, Ralph Wiurzburger, have developed considerable skill at the job and like this type of learning very much. The standard Purdue soil test is used. This soil testing is one of the requirements of the supervised farm practice project which each vocational student is required to carry out in connection with his class agricultural studies. The student is expected to draw a map of his home farm on one page of his project book and in this map draw in all the various fields, placing inside the borders of each field the reading of the soil test on the three above named chemical elements. It is hoped that the parents of these boys, and others, may have an opportunity in the near future to see them demonstrate this practice.