ABSTRACT
Soluble ion contents of the Tutu Village soil samples were determined using methodology adopted from Rhoades (1982). Rhoades suggests that procedures must be standardized and that methods of obtaining soil extracts in the laboratory yield only relative information about soil constituents (because laboratory conditions are considerably different from what would be observed in the field). It was not possible to duplicate Rhoades’ experiment exactly because the Tutu soil samples were considerably smaller (2.5 g vs 200 g) than those used in Rhoades’ work.
