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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

I used pH paper to determine the acidity of a bale of peat labeled as
sphagnum peat.  The pH of the damp peat was 5.   Somewhere, I have
packed away a good electronic pH meter which I will use to measure
the pH of the peat when I find it. The cheap pH meters with metal
rods hanging don't really work.  I believe 5 is around the correct
pH.  The pH paper I have only measures whole numbers.