REPOET OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. LIII 



CONNECTICUT. 



No extension of the soil survey has been made in the Connecticut 

 Valley since 1899, but with the extension of the profitable industry" of 

 producing the shade-grown Sumatra tobacco there is a very strong 

 demand now that the survey should be extended to include many 

 smaller valleys on either side of the area surveyed in 1899, and it is 

 proposed to spend about three months in the State during the next 

 field season, to give a basis for the extension of the tobacco iudustrv 

 on eithep side of the main valley. 



DELAWARE. 



No surveys have been made as yet in Delaware, and none is con- 

 templated during the present year. There is, however, a demand for 

 a soil survey to extend over the entire State, and it seems desirable to 

 spend three months in the State during the next fiscal year in such work. 



FLORIDA. 



No surveys have been made in this State up to the present time, but 

 it is proposed, if suitable arrangements can be made for a base map, 

 to make a soil survey in Gadsden County in the interest of the tobacco 

 growers. 



GEORGIA. 



During the past fiscal year two areas were surveyed in Georgia, 

 including Cobb County and an area around Covington, the former 

 being under the charge of Mr. R,. T. Avon Burke and the latter of 

 Mr. Herbert W. Marean. 



It was hoped that the survey in Cobb County would show the possi- 

 bilities of fruit raising, but it is believed that the prospects for this 

 industry are not so favorable in this locality as they are farther north, 

 and it is therefore proposed to extend the survey to include the 

 northern half of the Ellija}^ sheet of the United States Geological Sur- 

 vey to include portions of Union, Gilmer, and Fannin counties in the 

 interest of the fruit growers and as an extension of the survey in the 

 mountain ai'eas in Virginia and North Carolina. It is intended to 

 give about six months to this work during the next field season, and 

 it is also proposed to survey an area in Decatur County in the interest 

 of the tobacco growers. 



HAWAII. 



No soil survey has been made in this Territory as yet, but there have 

 been strong demands for the work, and a recommendation will be 

 made for needed legislation to permit the Department to extend its 

 soil survey work to that Territory at an early date. 



