of the N.y. Public Lib. 1-30-28 New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and of the Agricultural Experiment Station Established under the Direction of Cornell University Ithaca, New York 1917 VOLUME III Transmitted to the Legislature January 15, 1918 J. B. Lyon Company, Printers Albany, 1918 Cornell Extension Bulletin Published by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York In cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils Soil Survey of Clinton County E. T. Maxon, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Under the direction of Published and distributed m furtherance of the purposes provided for in the Act of Congress of May 8, 1914 RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE FEDERAL PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF SOIL SURVEY REPORTS JOINT RESOLUTION amending public resolution numbered eight, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and one, "providing for the printing annually of the report on field operations of the Division of Soils, Department of Agriculture." Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That public resolution numbered eight, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and one, be amended by striking out all after the resolving clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following: That there shall be printed ten thousand five hundred copies of the report on field operations of the Division of Soils, Department of Agriculture, of which one thousand five hundred copies shall be for use of the Senate, three thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and six thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture: Provided, That in addition to the number of copies above provided for there shall be printed, as soon as the manuscript can be prepared, with the necessary maps and illustrations to accompany it, a report on each area surveyed, in the form of advance sheets bound in paper covers, of which five hundred copies shall be for the use of each Senator from the State, two thousand copies for the use of each Representative for the Congressional district or districts in which the survey is made, and one thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture. Approved, March 14, 1904. [On July 1, 1901, the Division of Soils was reorganized as the Bureau of Soils.] EXPLANATORY STATEMENT The subjoined is a report on the Soil Survey of Clinton County, accompanied by a large-scale map in colors showing the distribution of the several types of soil recognized and described. This survey was made by E. T. Maxon, representing the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture, and W. R. Cone, representing the Department of Soil Technology of this College. The work was done in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Soils, of which Milton Whitney is Chief, Curtis F. Marbut is in charge of Soil Survey, and W. E. McLendon is Inspector of the Northern Division. A limited edition of this report is published by the United States Department of Agriculture as a separate from the Field Operations of the Bureau of Soils, but this College has none of these reports for distribution. BEVERLY T. GALLOWAY, Dean. |