REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OP AGRICULTURE. 



XLIII 



The following table gives the area of soils surveyed and mapped in 

 the several States in which the work has been carried on to the end of 

 the fiscal 3 7 ear: 



Area surveyed and mapped during fiscal year ending June SO, W01, and the area 



previously reported. 



i Field work in Michigan and New York was started on June 15, but the area surveyed in this fiscal 

 year was too small to report upon the cost of the work and they have not been included in the total. 

 The preparation for the other States marked were all made in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, 

 but the field work was actually started from the 1st to the 3d of July. 



The total cost of the work in the field amounted to $11,309, of which 

 $1,500 was paid by various State organizations. Including the cost of 

 the work in the field, the preparation of reports, and transportation 

 and supplies, the field work has cost the Department on the average 

 $3.26 per square mile, or about 51 cents per 100 acres. This is exclu- 

 sive of the cost of publications. That the results have been of value 

 to the communities and to the country at large has been attested in 

 man} r gratifying ways. Requests for the extension of the work have 

 come from prominent and thoughtful men in nearly all the States and 

 Territories and from those interested in man} 7 of the large agricultural 

 interests, such as sugar beet, tobacco, wheat, truck, rice, fruit; and 

 especially from many areas where peculiar conditions of soil,. climate, 

 transportation, or labor make it necessary to introduce new crops or 

 new methods for successful competition in the interests of the country. 



Our trained soil experts remain from three to nine months in a 

 district, visiting almost every foot of the area and mapping what they 



