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lauds, whether previously sowu to wheat or alfalfa, were plowed aud 

 plauted in eoru. Where the deposits were eight to twelve inches, however, 

 aud iu some cases eveu of less depth, it was found to be impossible to get 

 the soil iu couditiou for a crop iu 191o, a winter's freezing aud thawing be- 

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

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

 floe I, like all those of more recent years, are found to be not nearly so 

 feililc as were the deposits of the past, when much of the basin of the 

 Oh.'o was st/n 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 

 Mareli. on tlie steep .slopes of the Ohio and its tributaries iu southeastern 

 Indiana, from a gooIoL;ical !~tandpoint and probably from an economic also, 

 was tiie ^•ery gro.'^c number and size of the landslides. Those occurring as 

 a result of the rains of last March were tenfoid more numerous, tlian £!;o«e 

 following any heavy rains of the past. Every few huudred yards aloug 

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



