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survey, (3) drainage survey, and (4) field plat studies. The second 

 group includes: (ij Correspondence, (2) extension school work, (3) 

 special lectures, (4) demonstrations, and (5) special soil problems. 



The soil survey aims to classify, locate, and describe the important soils 

 of the State, and thus to make available to all persons the facts of their 

 character, around which most other agricultural data are grouped and on 

 which basis important and essential lines of further investigations should 

 be founded. This work continues in cooperation with the. United States 

 Department of Agriculture, M. E. Carr and G. A. Crabb representing the 

 Bureau of Soils and Tracy M. Morrison and Earl T. Maxon representing 

 this Department in the field work. This was in progress from October i 

 to November 20, 191 1, in Jefiferson county, covering 420 square miles 

 and finishing the 1,252 square miles in the county; from May 20 to 

 September 33 in Orange county, covering 650 of its 849 square miles ; and 

 from June 25 to September 30 in Oneida county, covering 360 of its 

 1,180 square miles — a total area for the year of 1,430 square miles. The 

 expenditure of the Department in this connection was approximately 

 $1,700. The total area represented by these three counties is 3,281 

 square miles. The total territory in the State covered by soil surveys is 

 11,150 s(|uare miles, in nineteen areas. 



The reports and maps covering the surveys in Monroe and Ontario 

 counties were published in ]\Iay by the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Attention is again called to the fact that the State has never published 

 any of the reports on soil surveys in the preparation of which it has had a 

 part, and the congressional edition is so small that this College is 

 practically without copies of the reports for distribution. It is not neces- 

 sary to duplicate the mechanical work of publication, which is expensive, 

 as the reports, either in print or in plate, can be purchased from the 

 Federal printer and the maps can be purchased from the lithographer, 

 provided orders are placed at the time when they are being put 

 through the press. These may then be inclosed in appropriate covers for 

 the College of Agriculture. 



Drainage. — The interest in the practice of farm drainage continues to 

 grow. The desirability of affording more assistance to farmers in the 

 layout of farm drainage systems has been emphasized in past reports. 

 During the present year a special efifort has been made to give some 

 assistance of this sort by way of demonstrations of methods of farm 

 drainage. Following a statement in the Announcer of the College of 

 Agriculture, that a limited amount of drainage survey work could be 

 done, applications for such aid were received, and continue to come, in 

 larger numbers than can be handled. Eighteen farm surveys were made 



