REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF SOILS. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Bureau of Soils, 

 Washington^ D. C, Septemher 12, 1922. 



Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a report covering the 

 operations of the Bureau of Soils for the fiscal year ended June 30, 

 1922. 



Respectfully, 



Milton Whitney, 



Chief of Bureau. 

 Hon. H. C. Wallace, 



Seci'etari/ of Agj'icuJture. 



SOIL SURVEY. 



During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922. detailed soil surveys 

 were completed or begun in 69 different counties or areas located in 

 29 States. The area surveyed in these projects was 27,337 square 

 miles, or 17,495,680 acres. Reconnaissance surveys were conducted 

 in Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, and Texas, covering a total area 

 of 18,311 square miles, or 11,720,960 acres. 



The total area covered by detailed surveys from the inception of 

 the work to and including June 30, 1922, amounts to 602,743 square 

 miles, or 385,755,520 acres, and by reconnaissance surveys 534,600 

 square miles, or 342,144,000 acres. This is a total of 1,137,343 square 

 miles or slightly more than one-third of continental United States. 

 There are in some of the Western States large areas of mountain 

 lands and of deserts, where there is no immediate prospect of irriga- 

 tion or of grazing, and for which there will likely be no need of soil 

 surveys. 



The following tabies show the areas surveyed during the fiscal 

 year just closed and the total area surveyed in each State up to the 

 present time : 



Table 1. — Individual areas surveiied and iimpped durhiQ the fiscal year ended 



June 30, 1922. 



1 These figures do not include portions of these areas surveyed in previous years. 



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