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Show to the soil testing laboratory at Utah State University, enclose en-close a sheet indicating any crop or soil problem you may have encountered, the crop grown last year, and the crop you intend to plant, Dr. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen said. -Your county agent can supply sup-ply you with soil sampling instructions. For practical soil testing results that are backed by research, send your samples to the USU Soils Laboratory, La-boratory, Logan, Utah 84321. Extension Service Suggests Need For Soil Testing Soil tests don't give all the answers, but they will help you decide on what fertilizer to use and whether or not you have a salt or alkali problem, suggests Wallace Sjoblom, Utah State University Extension Exten-sion agent in Iron County. Late winter or spring is a good time to sample your garden gar-den or farm soil for testing, he said. If you send the samples sam-ples in early, the results will be in your hands in time to apply the fertilizer before planting. Dr. Paul Christensen, Extension Exten-sion soil scientist, offers this advice for proper soil sampling: sam-pling: Take several small samples from the area or the field, and mix them to make a composit sample of approximately approxi-mately one-half to one quart. Take separate composit samples sam-ples from eac(i field or area you want tested. Sample alkali al-kali or peculiar spots separately. se-parately. Number the samples sam-ples and identify them with the area involved. When you send the samples |