Inland Stvanvps and 3fead(yws. 47 



usually narrow strips winding through the county or forming 



bluffs along streams. This land is used solely for ])asture, and 



very little of it can ever be used for anything else. Supports some 



forest growth. 



Acres. 



Johnson County, JU Ki, 884 



INLAM) SWAMPS AM) MEADOWS. 



Under this head will be described soils of a miscellaneous na- 

 ture, occurring along streams or in depressions, and inclined to be 

 wet from insufficient drainage ; fresh- water swamps in which drain- 

 age conditions are still more deficient so that the land is actually 

 covered with water for much of the time through an actual inabil- 

 ity to drain itself rather than from the flood waters of rivers; and 

 peat and muck, which are an advanced stage of swamp, where 

 drainage is partly established after a long period of growth of 

 water-loving vegetation. This classification depends mainly upon 

 the drainage conditions. 



Meadow. — This term is used for low-lying, flat, usually poorly 

 drained land along streams and embayments and in depressions. 

 Generally adapted to grass and pasturage and used for general farm- 

 ing where artificially drained. The areas being usually small and 

 narrow, and subject to frequent overflow, show great variation in 

 texture and character of material, but being usually moist the 

 influence of the texture is not so apparent as in upland soils. 

 The similarity of crop value dependent upon moisture conditions 

 is the controlling factor in this classification. 



Acres. Acres. 



Albemarle, Va 40, 640 , Cerro Gordo, Iowa 3,456 



Abbeville, S. C 6, 336 , Cobb County, Ga 30, 280 



Alamance, N. C 15, 970 Connecticut Valley, Connecti- 



Allegan County, Mich 15, 510 cut and Massachusetts ((55, 232 



Asheville, N. C 7. 808 ; Covington, Ga 16, 410 



Ashtabula, Ohio 12,160 Dover, Del 4,096 



Bedford, Ya 3,530 Dubuque, Iowa 4,160 



Bigflats, X.Y 1,920 Fort Valley, Ga 4,800 



Calvert, Md 1.5,800 Fresno, Cal 5,478 



Campobello, S. C 8,691 Gadsden County, Fla 52,224 



Gary, X. C 3,180 Grand Island, Nebr 28,544 



n Mapped as Connecticut Meadows. Should proljably have been given a type 

 name, as it is an alluvial soil rather than a meadow in the sense in which This 

 term is used. 



