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hiucLs, whether previously sowu to wheat or alfalfa, were plowed and 

 lilanted in corn. Where the deposits were eight to twelve inches, however, 

 and in some cases even of less depth, it was found to be impossible to get 

 the soil in condition for a crop in 1913, a winter's freezing and thawing be- 

 ing necessary to produce the proper texture in the soil for the cultivation 

 and production of a crop. The materials, soil and silt, left by the 1913 

 floo!i, like all those of more recent years, are found to be not nearly so 

 fertile as wore the deposits of the past, when much of the basin of the 

 Ob.'O was st^ll largely forested. 





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Landslide on Steep Hillside Upon Which Tobacco Had Been Grown. This Picture Shows a Great 

 Mass of Soil, etc.. Heaped Up Below the Break. 



The most important results of the very unusual precipitation of last 

 March, on tlie steep slopes of the Ohio and its tributaries in southeastern 

 Indiana, from a geological f-tandpoint and probably from an economic also, 

 was the ^-ery gro.^c number and size of the landslides. Those occurring as 

 a result of the rains of last March weve tenfoicl more numerous than tho«e 

 following any heavy rains of the past. Every few hundred yards along 

 the slopes facing the Ohio and its larger tributaries, these slides occurred. 



