Research Article

Quantifying the Effect of Soil Ameliorants on Soil Crusting by Means of Field Experiments in a Wildlife Protected Area, South Africa

Table 4

The influence of different treatments on Torvane shear test values.

TreatmentsTorvane shear test values (kg/cm2)

1PAM 0.5 g/m21.742
2PAM 2.0 g/m21.753
3PAM 0.5 g/m2 and molasses meal 500 g/m21.72
4PAM 0.5 g/m2 and gypsum 250 g/m21.6714
5Gypsum 250 g/m2
6Gypsum 250 g/m2 and molasses meal 500 g/m2
7Molasses meal 500 g/m21.58bc
8Brush packing
9Control1.37AB23

abColumn means with same superscript differ . ABColumn means with same subscript differ . 12Column means with same subscript tend to differ . Standard error of the means ± 0.155.