REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF SOILS. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



Bureau of Soils, 

 Washington, D. C, September 10, 1923. 

 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, 

 1923. 



Respectfully, 



Milton Whitney, 



Chief of Bureau. 

 Hon. H. C. Wallace, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



SOIL SURVEY. 



During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1923, detailed soil surveys 

 were begun or completed in 68 separate areas located in 26 States, 

 and 27,004 square miles, or 17,282,560 acres, were surveyed. Recon- 

 naissance surveys were conducted in Montana and Texas and 18,758 

 square miles, or 12,005,120 acres, were surveyed. In all of these 

 States the Soil Survey work was carried on in cooperation with some 

 State organization, such as the agricultural college, experiment sta- 

 tion, department of agriculture, or geological survey. The bureau 

 has been unable to meet fully the demands of the States for cooper- 

 ative work, and in meeting these requests as far as possible it has been 

 necessary to temporarily discontinue survey work in some of the 

 noncooperating States, although survey work in these States is 

 essential in the construction of a soil map of the United States. 



The total area covered by detailed surveys from the inception of 

 the work to and including June 30. 1923, amounts to 629,747 square 

 miles, or 403,038,080 acres, and by reconnaissance surveys 553,358 

 square miles, or 354,149,120 acres. 



Tables accompanying this report 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 surveyed and mapped during the fiscal year ended June SO, 



192S. 



DETAILED. 



State. 



Alabama . 

 Arkansas . 



California. 



Ctierokee County. 

 Greene County. . . 

 Baxter County. . . 

 Bradley County.. 



Clay County 



Nevada County.. 



CoacheUa area 



Gilroy area 



Hollister area 



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



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