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ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Areas surveyed and mapped in the several States during the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1919, and the areas previously reported Coiitimied. 



stale or Territory. 



Work dur- 

 ing 1919 

 (square 

 miles). 



Work pre- 

 viously 

 reported 

 (square 

 miles). 



Total. 



Square 

 miles. 



Acres. 



South Carolina. 

 South Dakota. . 



Temiessee 



Texas 



Utah 



Vermont ... 



Virginia 



Washington 



WestVirginie. . 



Wisconsin 



Wjroming 



1,322 



200 

 1,763 



611 



600 



1,170 



819 



20, 55.S 



675 



8, 725 



29,194 



1,951 



1,175 



9,102 



10,152 



14,845 



15,408 



855 



21,880 



675 



8, 925 



30,957 



1,951 



1,175 



9,713 



10, 752 



16,015 



16, 227 



855 



14,003.200 



432.000 



5,712,000 



19,812,480 



1,248,640 



752,000 



6,213,320 



6,881,280 



10, 249, 600 



10,385,280 



547, 200 



Totil. 



33,988 



483,961 



517,949 



331,487,360 



RECONNOISSANCE. 



Cooperative work with the Forest Service was carried on during 

 the year in certain studies in Utah, Arizona, and in a number of 

 Southeastern States. In the latter the work had especial reference 

 to the relation of soil character to kind and character of forest 

 growth. Information of tliis kind w^as desired in certain reforesta- 

 tion studies in the area of cut-over lands in the South. The work in 

 Utah and Arizona also was concerned primarily w^ith the relation of 

 the soil to the growing of forest trees. 



The study of the soil conditions on the public lands, in cooperation 

 with officials of the Geological Survey engaged in land-classification 

 work, w^as continued through August, 1918, when the party assigned 

 to this work was called for by the Reclamation Service. This work 

 with the Geological Survey was concerned primarily with the prob- 

 lems of soil classification in the Great Plains States, and a great deal 

 of valuable information concerning the soils in the region was 

 obtained. The data will be useful in preparing a soil map of the 

 United States upon which the bureau and the Office of Farm Manage- 

 ment are engaged. Studies of the same character, independent of 

 the Geological Survey, were made in southeastern Utah and south- 

 western Colorado, late in the season after the forest-survey work in 

 Utah had been finished. . 



At the request of the Eeclamation Service, Interior Department, a 

 party was assigned to the work of examining the soils of a number 

 of areas in Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona, with regard to the feasi- 



