REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE. 



XLIII 



The followinof table gives the area of soils surveyed and mapped in 

 the several States in which the work has been carried on to the end of 

 the fiscal year: 



Area surveyed and mapped daring fiscal year ending June SO, 1901, and the area 



previoudy reported. 



State or Territory. 



Arizona 



California 



Connfcticut 



Idaho 



Louisiana 



Maryland 



Massachusetts . . 



Michigan 



New Jersey 



New Mexico 



New York 



North Carolina . 



Ohio 



Pennsylvania . . 



Tennessee 



Texas 



Utah 



Virginia 



Washington 



Total 



1901. 



Sq. miles. 



Previous- 1 

 ly re- 

 ported. 



Total. 



951 



Sq. miles. 

 400 

 450 

 245 



Square 

 miles. 



400 



1,401 



245 



Acres. 



(>i 



1,137 



1,000 

 625 

 155 



256,000 

 8%, 640 

 156,800 



135 



(>) 



100 



120 



1,700 



480 



320 



0) 

 0) 



457 

 250 



301 



100 



100 



311 



5,596 3,486 



1,000 640,000 



1,762 1,127.680 



155 99, 200 



100 



64,000 



1,800 

 480 

 420 



1,15-2,000 

 307,200 

 268,800 



768 

 250 

 :i01 



491, 520 

 160, 000 

 192, 640 



9,082 I 5,812,480 



1 Field work in Michigan and New York was started on June 15, but the area surveyed in this fiscal 

 year was too small to report upon the cost of the work and they have not been included in the total. 

 The preparation for the other States marked were all made in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, 

 but the field work was actually started from the 1st to the 3d of July. 



The total cost of the work in the field amounted to $11,309, of which 

 $1,500 was paid b3' various State organizations. Including the cost of 

 the work in the field, the preparation of reports, and transportation 

 and supplies, the field work has cost the Department on the average 

 $3.26 per square mile, or about 51 cents per 100 acres. This is exclu- 

 sive of the cost of publications. That the results have been of value 

 to the communities and to the country at large has been attested in 

 many gratifying ways. Requests for the extension of the work have 

 come from prominent and thoughtful men in nearly all the States and 

 Territories and from those interested in many of the large agricultural 

 interests, such as sugar beet, tobacco, wheat, truck, rice, fruit; and 

 especially from many areas where peculiar conditions of soil, climate, 

 transportation, or labor make it necessary to introduce new crops or 

 new methods for successful competition in the interests of the country. 



Our trained soil experts remain from three to nine month.s in a 

 district, visiting almost every foot of the area and mapping what they 



