LXII REPOKT OF THE SECKETARY OF AGRICULTURE. 



OHIO. 



During the past fiscal year work has been started in the Cohimbus 

 area and in the Toledo area, and it is believed these will both be com- 

 pleted by the end of the present field season. The surveys are being 

 made under the direction of Mr. W. G. Smith. 



The Columbus area is devoted to general farming. While there is 

 a certain uniformit}' in the soils, one of the principal soils is preemi- 

 nentlv a w^heat land and another chieflv a corn land, the character of 

 the soils showing very strongl}- their peculiar agricultural values iu 

 the crops produced and in the success of these crops. 



It is proposed to assign a party to this State during the next field 

 season to survey a part of Ashtabula County in the interest of the 

 fruit and tobacco growers. 



OKEGON. 



No surve3's have been made in this State, but it is proposed to 

 assign a part}" there for six months during the next field season to sur- 

 vey an area around Salem, in the AVillamette Valley. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



During the past fiscal year a survey of the Lebanon area, in the 

 interest of tobacco growers and general farming, was completed under 

 the direction of Mr. Smith. The interest taken in the survey" around 

 Lancaster leads me to believe that the results of this work will be 

 found of interest and practical value in the still higher development 

 of the agricultural conditions of the locality. 



It seems desirable to assign a party for three months during the 

 next iield season to make a soil survey of Clinton Countv, particularly 

 in the interest of the tobacco growers. 



PORTO RICO. 



During the past fiscal year an area of 330 square miles was surve^'ed 

 in a strip about 10 miles wide, extending from Arecibo to Ponce, the 

 work being in charge of Messrs. Dorsey and Mesmer. Tw^entj^-two 

 types of soils were recognized, all of them markedl}^ different from 

 the soils encountered in the United States. Much of the countrj^ is 

 rugged, broken, and mountainous, and as there were no available 

 maps, the base map had to be made as the soil survey progressed. 

 Many of these soils are not well adapted to agriculture, but the report 

 deals full}' with the conditions as they were actually seen, and it is 

 believed that it will form a basis for a more intelligent development of 

 the agriculture of the island. 



It is deemed advisable that this survey should be extended to include 

 the whole area of the island, of -svhich about one-tenth is included in 

 the area already surveyed, but under a change made iu the wording of 



