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Show fmmmmmmmmm-mkwm FAnMEn'3 LAND WAS SOUR Simple Test With Litmus Paper I Showed Aeld The stale experiment stations are doing a great work for Hit farmers ' The following Inrldont alio a how i simple some nf the tests are when )ou know how says a writer In Country 1 Ife In Vraorlca A station I official was going over a farm with the owner wlim they rnme to a ernwflshy piece of land Just back of Ihe barn the very weeds looked yellow and tin i healthful ' I nm Incline,! to think remarked the agriculturist that this land Is loo ' acid for productivity We can do (ermine this In a moment Tsklng a blue piece of paer from his pocket he stooped and dipped thn pier In some of the will water that wns standing In n cow track To Iho owners astonishment the blue paper changed to n red color ns aoen as It waa Immersed I Thcto aald thn agriculturist wo 1 havu our proof This Is Just n pleco I uf lllmus paper Kor S centa jnu ian buy a similar piece at any drug store Its change of color shows that tho i land Is smir (.'runs cannot thrive on sour land nny more than children ' can thrive on sour milk " |