WHAT IS MUCK? 3 



decay is possible. Therefore, the annual ac- 

 cumulation of dead remains exceeds the an- 

 nual loss caused by decay, resulting inevit- 

 ably in an ever increasing amount of veget- 

 able remains. 



Rear of a .Dipper Ditching Dredge at work on the 

 Western New York Farms Co. muck at Elba, N. Y. 



With the vegetation is generally found 

 some mixture of upland soil or "wash." If 

 this were not so, the muck would be simply 

 a mass of plant tissue. Muck areas differ 

 with reference to a number of factors. Some 

 swamps have been formed by sphagnum 

 moss, notably the bogs of Ireland. 



Good versus Poor Muck. Some moss is 

 found in most swamps in America, but a 

 larger part of these areas are derivations 



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