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Show FARM SUPPLEMENT THURSDAY. APRIL 14, 1977 OwGS'Eiortie Soil Products This Year In a year of expected reduced production stemming from drouth, farmers and gardeners need to be doubly cautious about spending for questionable products that little have likelihood of enhancing production. Dr. Paul D. Christensen, extension soil specialist, Utah State University, warns that "soil medicines" are appearing in increasing numbers. He said, "Contrary to the fantastic false statements and supposed benefits claimed for these products, chances are poor that there will be any economic return from applying them to soils or crops. "The soil medicines may consist of microbial inoculants, organic materials or crushed rock or minerals. The sales them literature touting generally prove water use efficiency, layman is not always equipped to make sound evaluations." He noted that natural variations in crop performance between fields and from one year to the next often lead people to mistakenly identify the cause as some product they have applied. To obtain a realistic basis for evaluating any treatment or product that is applied, Dr. Christensen untrained reduce or eliminate crop disease, reduce insect infestation, improve storage or keeping quality, and improve nutritional value of crops. Similar claims are made by materials so dissimilar as a lime deposit from a hot spring, an "organic solution" containing more than 99.9 percent water, a patented bacteria in manure compost, or a gypsum-rocmixture. Dr. Christensen said, "Whenever a soil medicine is exposed to the valid tests of research, the fantastic results fail to appear. However, the success of the soil medicine movement is evidence that the k advises leaving untreated strips or areas in the field or garden at the time the new treatment is applied. Compare the treated area with the untreated during the same growing season and in the same field or garden area. The extension soil specialist said that people who are interested in information about specific products can contact their local Extension office or the Department of Soil Science and Biometeorologv, Utah OIlPS PLAN .,f-- State University, Logan, Utah. For more information on soil medicines ask for the new Cooperative Extension Service bulletin, "Soil Medicines?" cost 35 cents. YSOlLV a "X PAPPY, 1 let CALL VERTICAL SHOCRACK LATTICE STOt- - PEEPERMElVtS KX EXTRA-44ti- HEElEP MOUNT ON M0& CUMETMOU a comprises conglomeration of scientific assumpjargon, unrealistic tions, wildly fantastic asse- emotional and rtions, These are enough misplaced facts to make the package" palatable to the consumer." Many claims of benefits of soil from application medicines are made. They are not necessarily related to the nature of the product. 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