SOIL SURVEY OF ANOKA COUNTY, MINN. 19 



raised in connection with dairying. Cattle are raised in considerable 

 numbers. Corn yields 25 to 50 bushels per acre, oats 25 to 50 bushels, 

 rye 10 to 30 bushels, and wheat 15 to 30 bushels. Potatoes yield 

 75 to 200 bushels per acre. Tame hay, consisting of clover and 

 timoth}^ mixed as well as each grown alone, ranges in yield from 

 1 to 2 tons per acre. StraAvberries yield from 1,000 to 2,000 quarts 

 per acre. 



Owing to its heavier texture this type does not drift readily, and 

 plowing can be done at any season of the year. Fall plowing is 

 desirable, as it lessens the amount of work to be done in the spring, 

 allows the soil to be mellowed by alternate freezing and thawing, 

 and hastens the deca}^ of weeds and other trash. As a consequence, 

 much fall plowing is done on this soil, harrowing and other opera- 

 tions as ma}" be necessary to prepr.re a proper seed bed being deferred 

 until spring. 



Land values on this tj^pe range from $70 to over $100 an acre. 

 It is favorably situated with reference to railway lines and other 

 means of transportation. 



GLOUCESTER FINE SANDY LOAM. 



The Gloucester fine sandy loam consists of a dark-gray, gray, or 

 grayish-brown fine sandy loam, 10 to 24 inches deep, underlain by an 

 orange-brown to light-brown clay loam or clay. Occasionally the 

 subsoil may be quite clayey and compact to considerable depths, but 

 in many places the lower subsoil and the substratum have a varying 

 admixture of fine sand and small gravel mixed with clay and are 

 more or less open, though not to the extent of being leachy. The type 

 differs from the Miami fine sandy loam in being less uniformly clayey 

 throughout the subsoil and substratum, and in having an entire 

 absence of calcareous material within the upper 3 or 4 feet. Small 

 crystalline gravel, cobblestones, and medium-sized bowlders occur 

 more or less abundantly on the surface and throughout the soil mass. 

 In places calcareous clay and limestone gravel, cobbles, and bowlders 

 occur at depths of 4 to 8 feet. In the older fields very few bowlders 

 remain on the surface, having been removed from time to time since 

 the land has been under cultivation. 



The Gloucester fine sandy loam is developed in the northwestern 

 part of the count}'. Its principal area lies in Burns Township and 

 in the western part of St. Francis Township. Avith a small extension 

 into Ramsey Township. The surface is for the most part level to 

 rolling. A small total area is hilly. The type is well drained, but 

 the texture and structure of the soil and subsoil are favorable to the 

 conservation of moisture for crop use. 



The Gloucester fine sandy loam ranks high agriculturally. It is 

 easy to cultivate, warms up early in the spring, and responds well to 



