B34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 10,1982 Huntingdon soils info computer coded UNIVERSITY PARK - Two Penn State scientists say the computer is the best tool for get ting information about soils to planners, farmers, engineers, foresters, and anyone else who needs to know if a certain soil fits a specifice use. Bob Cunningham and Gary Petersen have completed a pilot project for Huntingdon County. They computer-coded four kinds of information: field data on local soils, mapped by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service; the soils’ physical, chemical, and mmeralogicai properties, deter mined at Penn State; SCS in terpretations of the soils’ suitability for various uses; and the exact location of each soil. “Suppose you want to know which areas are suitable for septic tank absorption fields,” says Petersen. “We can display these sites on a color TV screen linked to the computer. 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