Excerpt from Cotton-Tillage Studies on Red Bay Sandy Loam This is caused by the character Of the subsoil as the top 3 to 4 inches Of soil scours readily. Waen the soil is dry and hard, deep tillage tends to break it into large clods Or lumps. With Increasing moisture, the soil tends to pulverize more as it passes over the moldboard until the moisture content is near that of the lower plastic limit, i. E. The lowest moisture content at which a soil can just be rolled into a wire one eighth of an inch in diameter without breaking into lengths shorter than three eig bths of an inch. The soil sticksg to the moldboards of plows and middle breakers3 when the moisture content is above this point. 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.

Excerpt from The Orangeburg Fine Sandy Loam The Orangeburg fine sandy loam, in common with the other members of the Orangeburg series, is found within the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains from southeastern North Carolina to west-central Texas. By far the greater area of this soil occurs in two separate belts in the east Gulf coast region and in one extensive region west of the Mississippi River. The first of the eastern regions marked by the widespread distribution of this type lies in northern Florida, southern Georgia, southern Alabama, and adjacent portions of Mississippi around Mobile Bay. Within this territory the type is not one of the dominant soils, being exceeded in area by members of the Norfolk and other series, although aggregating many thousands of acres in extent. The second of the eastern belts extends from south-central Georgia westward through central Alabama into northeastern Mississippi. Within this region the Orangeburg fine sandy loam and other members of the same series are widely distributed and in many of the soil survey areas constitute the dominant soil types. West of the Mississippi River there is a large area within which the Orangeburg fine sandy loam and members of the series occupy important rank in point of area and agricultural value. This region comprises the northern and northwestern portion of Louisiana, southwestern Arkansas, the extreme northeastern portion of Texas, and a broad belt extending from the vicinity of Shreveport, La., southwest to the vicinity of San Antonio, Tex. In this timbered region, which separates extensive prairie areas, the members of the Orangeburg series are important soils and the Orangeburg fine sandy loam is the most important, both in extent and in agricultural value. The Orangeburg fine sandy loam is preeminently a Gulf region soil type with only scattered occurrences along the Atlantic coast. It has been encountered in 50 different soil survey areas located in 10 States, and has been mapped to the extent of 2,507,840 acres. 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.