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Behavior of the Jones Lime Requirement Determination with Progressive Decrease in Soil Acidity 1
Author(s) -
Metzger W. H.
Publication year - 1933
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1933.00021962002500120003x
Subject(s) - agricultural experiment station , citation , soil water , lime , library science , state (computer science) , horticulture , agriculture , mathematics , environmental science , archaeology , history , computer science , soil science , geology , algorithm , paleontology , biology
In a study of the rates of reaction of certain liming materials with acid soils, decrease in lime requirement, determined by the Jones method (s), was one of the criteria employed. The fact that the decreases observed were frequently smaller than could reasonably be anticipated suggested that the method might be at fault. Carleton (2), Schollenberger (4), and perhaps others have observed in applying the method to soils treated with increasing increments of lime that the change in lime requirement deviates considerably from a linear function of the amount of lime applied. The present paper deals with a study of this relationship.