Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1914 — TO MAKE SOIL SURVEY. [ARTICLE]

TO MAKE SOIL SURVEY.

State Geologist Edward Barrett Will Begin Soil Survey of Northern Three Tiers of Counties. The Indiana Department of Geology will conduct a soil survey of the northern three tiers of counties during the coming season under the personal direction of Edward Barrett, the state geologist, lie and his assistants will establish themselves in some central location and work out each day to every locality in the counties until the soils are thoroughly gone over. In this survey they take up several important questions as follows: 1. The topography or surface of the land. 2. The drainage, both natural and artificial. 3. The origin or derivation of the soils, whether they are of drift origin or whether they have been derived from the disintegration of the underlying rocks of the locality. 4. The climatic conditions, such as rainfall, frost„ and the number of growing days in a season 5. Cultural methods among the farmers. Locating and mapping the areas of acid and sour soils; also marsh, muck and peat soils. T. Geological formation of the country and the uses to which raw materials may be put. 8. Classification of soils into types according to the United States classification; making soil maps of the areas examined, with mechanical and chemical analysis of the different types of soils. All these things will be written up and published in the next report of the department. Wihen published in the annual report of the department it will be sent out over the entire United States and will draw the attention of the public to Indiana soils. It will be the first extensive work of this kind done in these counties and under the efficient management of Mr. Barrett we can rest assured it will be thoroughly done.

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