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PLATE VIII. After the flood on. the farm of Harry Deibler, east 

 of Manhattan, The clump of trees to the west is what remained of a 

 fine young orchard. Before the flood the house now seen in the dis- 

 tance stood in the edge of the orchard. The debris is largely ties and 

 steel rails, the remains of the Rock Island railroad, which bordered 

 the farm on the south. 



PLATE IX. A sanded area of about ninety acres, on the farm of Gus 

 Carlson, in Moehlman bottom. The sand was several feet deep in 

 places, and was beginning to blow and drift about with the wind. 

 This view was taken July 15. A scant vegetation was struggling up 

 in places where the sand deposit was shallow, and over a part of the 

 area a thick growth of young cottonwoods was starting. Hundreds 

 of acres of this once fertile and beautiful valley were rendered useless 

 by this covering of sand. 



PLATE X. A sanded area of about sixty acres, on the farm of G. E. 

 Spohr, also in the Moehlman bottom. The man standing in the ex- 

 cavation is Mr. Spohr, who, by digging at different points, estimated 

 the depth of the sand on this area to vary from one to five feet.' 



PLATE XI. An orchard which was destroyed by the flood, on Mr. 

 G. E. Spohr's farm. In this orchard of twenty-three acres, some thir- 

 teen acres of trees were washed down, covered with sand and debris, 

 and destroyed. 



PLATE XII. A bur-oak stump on the roadside, east of Manhattan, 

 showing how the soil was washed from the roots by the forming of 

 eddies in the current. Many trees in orchards and groves and along 

 the river banks were washed out or injured in this manner. 



PLATE XIII. A crop grown after the flood. A field of sorghum, 

 on the farm of Fred Moehlman, in Moehlman bottom. This was 

 planted July 20 and made an excellent crop of fodder. 



PLATE XIV. A tract of land that seemed to be bare sand when the 

 waters receded, early in June, but in November was thickly covered 

 with cottonwoods and willows. 



PLATE XV. Clump of young cottonwoods that have grown up on 

 land flooded in June. 



PLATE XVI. A growth of cottonwoods about twenty years old, on 

 the bank of the Kansas river. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 



The photographs from which the cuts shown in this bulletin were 

 made were taken by Dr. S. C. Orr, of Manhattan, who does much work 

 of this character for the Agricultural College and Experiment Station, 

 and spares no effort to produce the best possible results. 



