...unproductive soils from different parts of the United States have been under study in the laboratories of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture for several years, and some of their properties are now understood. It has been demonstrated that many...

...experiments, results of which are recorded in the present paper, were carried out in the laboratories of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC I am indebted to Professor MILTON WHITNEY, to Dr. FK CAMERON, and to all the members]of...

...subgrade. DEVELOPMENT; Practically all specialized knowledge about the soils was confined to members of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture, excepting perhaps some facts about the status bearing value of soils gained by engineers and used in...

...that it has declined in numerical, financial, and spiritual power." In 1901 Mr Milton Whitney, Chief of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture stated before the Industrial Commission : " It is doubtless well known to the Commission that there...

...present lime is the renunciation and denunciation of the erroneous and condemnable wide-spread teaching of the Bureau of Soils of. the United States Department of Agriculture to the efject that the soil cannot wear out and that " it will continue "automatically" to supplv adequate...

...resolution was adopted. Resolved, First : That the Virginia Horticultural Society heartily endorses the work of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture, and respectfully requests the Secretary of Agriculture to continue the work already begun in Virginia...

...regarding the depth of wells, amount of water, cost, etc. From his observations, supplemented by the work of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture, the table on pages 22-30 has been compiled. The location of the wells is shown on PI. II. In a small...

...Geological Survey, Nineteenth Annual Report, pt. ii., Washington, 1899) ; the reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture, especially Bulletins 4. 10, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 22, and reports on Field Operations of the Bureau of...

...(d) Grass soils — Page 724. (c) Wheat soils — Page 725. 4. Classification according to the system of the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture — Pages 725-731. Soil provinces— Page 726. Vergennes series — Page 712. VIII. Glossary— Pages...

...which usually obtain. This discussion is in large measure leaving out of consideration the viewpoint of the Bureau of Soils of the United* States Department of Agriculture. In short the Bureau holds, first, that practically all soils contain sufficient plant food to maintain...