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Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Twenty-Second Meeting, Held at Portland, Maine, August 1878 Of the Upland Soils in the foregoing table, Nos. 248, 206, 209, 397, 219 and 173, are properly of the Yellow Loam age: i. E., of the end of the Drift period while 165 is one of the two chief varieties of soils occurring in the Flat Woods, a level area bordering on the Cretaceous, and mostly characterized by the occurrence of the lower tertiary clays near the surface. The light soil (165) occurs in irregular strips and patches; it is very easily tilled at all times all rain water is promptly absorbed; but it is too open, droughty, and does not hold manure at all. No. 248 forms a stratum 3 feet thick, on the ridges east of Talla homa creek, Jasper county, Miss. By its disintegration, it forms a deep and extremely sandy soil, which is injured by high winds carrying away its finer parts. It has, however, yielded good crops of corn and cotton for fifteen years without manure, though liable to injury' from drought. - Nos. 206 and 209 are typical of the Pine Hill region of South Mississippi, the home of the long leaved pine. The soil is very light and easily tilled, but not nearly as open as the preceding two. It is materially improved by the admixture of the subsoil, No. 209 which enables it to hold manure, being what would be termed a sandy loam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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