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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | Value of a chemical analysis of soil |
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| Section: | Questions and answers
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 10, No. 2, February 1930, p. 30-31. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "The condition of our greens and fairways has not been satisfactory to us. We are wondering whether the difficulties we are encountering in producing satisfactory turf are due to an inherent defect in the soil. So that we may ascertain whether or not the composition of the soil is responsible for our troubles, we should appreciate your suggestions as to the value of a chemical analysis of the soil and the best method to pursue in having such an analysis made." |
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| Source of Question: | New York |
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| Answer/Response: | "A chemical analysis of soil is generally expensive, and our observations have led us to the conclusion that the expense of such analyses is not justifiable. Should you have such an analysis made you would then probably have to do what most other clubs have done in such cases, namely secure the services of some one to interpret the meaning of the analysis. Many years ago soil analyses became very popular in agricultural work, but they have since fallen into discard, when agricultural chemists found that the growth of plants depended on the chemicals they could absorb from the soil rather than on the chemicals the soil contained. Chemicals may be present in the soil but be so completely locked up that they are not available to plants. This point was not appreciated several years ago. A similar situation has presented itself in the study of foods for human consumption; a few years ago nutrition experts were talking merely about so many calories in a pound of a certain kind of food, but later it was learned that the amount of energy in food was not the measure of its value but rather the amount of energy that could be absorbed by the body and the maintenance of a proper balance with other essential chemicals, and also the presence of vitamins. We doubt that a chemical analysis of your soil would do you any good." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Chemical soil analysis; Costs; Problem diagnosis; Recommendations; Soil testing
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1930. Value of a chemical analysis of soil. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 10(2):p. 30-31. |
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