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We have in Arkansas the whole of the state represented, ex- 

 cept the lowlands, and it should be stated that the agricultural 

 wealth of that state lies in its lowlands. I might say it is more or 

 less of a misrepresentation of Arkansas to show merely its upland 

 portion, a good deal of which is mountainous land, but you will 

 notice the yellow is not present. You will notice the blue is quite 

 prominent in a number of counties, but what corresponds to sandy 

 loam in the other counties is quite prominent in Arkansas. That 

 does not mean that it is all sandy loam, however. You will notice, 

 though, that the red is quite prominent. Wherever we have a 

 coastal plain county, there is very little red in it. Jefferson is a 

 coastal plain, but the amount of unimproved land is larger than 

 shown here, because not all of Jefferson County lies in the coastal 

 plain, and is not represented here. Jefferson has a good deal of wet 

 and heavy land. Grant County is a coastal plain county, and the 

 proportion of rough and stony land is low. When we get into the 

 mountain counties, the proportion of rough and stony land is rela- 

 tively high. 



Texas, again, we know relatively little about, and I have un- 

 dertaken to show only the eastern part of the state. One of the 

 characteristics of the Texas Coast Plain is that there is a very high 

 percentage of sandy loam and a relatively low percentage of sand. 

 One or two counties have a high percentage of sand. Wet and 

 heavy lands are also low. Texas is a region of adaptable soils and 

 a small amount of the characteristically forage land crops. 1 will 

 also say that this blue color in Texas represents mostly the heavy 

 lands, rather than the wet, for there is not a great deal of wet land 

 in the state. 



Now, to sum the whole thing up, I have put on the chart a 

 summation of the data shown on the other charts. 



This bar represent^ for Alabama the total improved land ; this, 

 the total unimproved land, and of the unimproved land, this repre- 

 sents the percentage of sand, this the wet and heavy land, this the 

 rough, and this the sandy loam. 



The same way in other states. You will notice here the large 

 amount of blue in Mississippi and the relatively small amount of 

 red — a little larger than in Alabama and quite a little larger than in 

 Texas. 



A Delegate : I would like to ask whether the chart represents 

 the entire part of the states? 



Mr. Marbut : No. It represents only those counties in the 

 coastal plain, with ihe exception of Arkansas. 



