D2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 4,1982
NEWARK, Dei. - Officials of
the University of Delaware and
Delaware State Grange toured the
College of Agricultural Sciences’
soil test facilities recently during o
ceremony to recognize recent
Grange contributions—including a
$5,000 gift which has made it
possible to upgrade the college’s
soil test reporting system.
During the visit, current Grange
Master Wills Passmore and for
mer master Claude Hoffman in
spected the new soils test
laboratory in Worrilow Hall. A
plaque commemorates their
organization’s gift. Representing
the University were President E.
Arthur Trabant, ag college dean
Donald F. Crossan, associate dean
William J. Benton and Extension
director Samuel M. Gwinn.
Crossan said the Grange
donation has made it possible to
completely revise the college’s soil
testing computer program, adding
a terminal and printer for ex
clusive use in reporting test
results. Upgrading the program
required the full-time services of a
computer programmer who
worked closely with soil and crop
scientists for six months.
Results of this effort will be
updated fertilizer and liming
recommendations correlated to
various crop sequence possibilities
and stated in language easier for
users to understand. The new
reporting system is now being
field-tested and will go into effect
in January 1983.
The University of Delaware soil
testing laboratory routinely
handles about 7,000 soil samples a
year—s,ooo from fanners and 2,000
from homeowners. An additional
2,000 samples a year come from
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“The Grange gift will result in
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tion,” Crossan said.
In acknowledging the Grange’s
generosity, Crossan noted that the
fanner organization has long
supported agricultural programs
at the university. It was in
strumental in establishing the
Delaware Agricultural Ex
periment in 1888. Before the
college acquired its own ex
perimental farm in 1908, scientists
used Grangers’ farms for field
trials and large-scale crop ex
periments.
The Grange also supported the
establishment of the Delaware
Cooperative Extension Service a
few years later and pushed for
state appropriations to help pay
Delaware’s first county agents.
Since then, it has consistently
supported the college’s
educational and research efforts.
During the 19705, Grange
members actively supported
legislation which funded the
construction of the college’s new
research/teaching facility,
Worrilow Hall. They also voted to
contribute $5,000 toward the long
awaited building. College ad
ministrators decided to use this
money for the soil test laboratory.
In addition to this support, the
Grange recently contributed $2,800
toward the publication of an ex
tension bulletin now being
prepared on the use of planter
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