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Soil survey of Thurston County, Nebraska, A. H. Meyee, M. W. Beck, and 

 W. A. RocKiE (f7. S. Dept. Agr., Advance Sheets Field Operations Bur. Soils, 

 1914, pp. U, fiff- -?. w«p i).— This survey, made in cooperation with the Nebraska 

 Soil Survey and issued April 22, 1916, deals with the soils of an area of 247,680 

 acres in northeastern Nebraska, the topography of which ranges from almost 

 flat through rolling and steeply rolling to hilly and extremely dissected. As a 

 whole, the county is said to be well drained. 



The soils are upland terrace and first bottom soils. " There is considerable 

 range in texture, from clay through silt loam, loam, sandy loam, and very fine 

 sandy loam to sand." Including riverwasb, 15 soil types of 9 series are mapped 

 of which the filarshall and Wabash silt loams cover respectively 62.8 and 16.5 

 per cent of the area. 



Soil survey of Florence County, South Carolina, J. H. Agee, J. A. Kerb, and 

 W. E. McLendon ( U. S. Dept. Agr., Advance Sheets Field Operations Btir. SoilSf 

 19U, pp. S6, fig. 1, map i).— This survey, issued April 17, 1916, deals with the 

 soils of an area of 480,640 acres in east-central South Carolina lying wholly 

 within the Coastal Plain province. The topography is level to very gently 

 sloping. 



The soils of the county are of old sedimentary and old and recent alluvial 

 origin, "are predominantly sandy, and include coarse sands, coarse sandy 

 loams, sands, sandy loams, fine sands, fine sandy loams, and very fine sandy 

 loams. . . . The high and sloping sandy soils are well drained, while the low- 

 lying soils and those having an impervious clay subsoil . . . have very poor 

 or imperfect drainage." Including sandhill and swamp, 33 soil types of 10 

 series are mapped of which the Norfolk sandy loam and fine sandy loam, the 

 Coxville sandy loam, and swamp soils cover, respectively, 14.6, 9.3, S.5, and 13.3 

 per cent of the area. 



Soil survey of McDowell and Wyoming counties, West Virginia, W. J. 

 Latimeb {U. S. Dept. Agr., Advance Sheets Field Operations Bur. Soils, 1914, 

 pp. S2, fig. 1, map 1). — This survey, made in cooperation with the West Virginia 

 Geological Survey and issued April 14, 1916, deals with the soils of an area 

 of 669,440 acres comprising two counties in southern West Virginia which lie 

 within the Allegheny Plateau and consist of a region thoroughly dissected by a 

 series of widely branching streams which reach every part of their area. The 

 surface is broken and mountainous and comprises a series of irregular ridges 

 and deep, narrow valleys. 



The soils of the area are of residual and old and recent alluvial origin. In- 

 cluding rough stony land, 12 soil types of 5 series are mapped, of which the 

 Dekalb stony silt loam and silt loam covers 72.1 and 16.2 per cent of the area, 

 respectively. 



Analyses of Nova Scotian soils, L. C. Haelow {Proc. and Trans. Nova 

 Scotian Inst. Sci., 13 {1913-14), No. 4, pp. SS2-346) .—Analyses of 86 samples of 

 Nova Scotian soils are reported and discussed. The results are taken to indi- 

 cate (1) that the soils "have a good supply of potash, but that it is only 

 slightly available, (2) that phosphoric acid in many soils is in small amounts, is 

 about one-third available, and hence soon used, (3) that, while volatile matter 

 Is quite high, it is deficient in nitrogen, and (4) that lime is very deficient in 

 many soils. . . . The great problem in Nova Scotia seems to be to increase and 

 maintain the amount of available nitrogen." 



Relations between the total phosphoric acid content and the water- and 

 citrate-soluble phosphoric acid in some soils of central Peru, A. Hutin (Arm. 

 Chim. Analyt., 20 (1915), No. 2, p. 31; abs. in Chem. Abs., 9 (1915), No. 13, p. 

 18/6).— Analyses of six soUs and their subsoils, selected from a large number 



