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BULLETIN 116, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTTJEE. 



Dekalb silt loam (locally known as white or ^^ellow soil), 44 per 

 cent. 



Upshur clay (locally known as red clay land), 8 per cent. 

 Meigs (locally known as mixed soil), 48 per cent. 



TOPOGRAPHY. 



The hill country proper of Ohio, which includes the township 

 studied, is well described as consisting of a succession of hills and 



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Fig. 4. — Monthly rainfall at Amesvillo, Ohio, for each year covered by the stiuly, inii: to 

 1010, inclusive, and the 24-year averajie, together with the number of growing days 

 from the date of the last killing frost in tlie spring to the first killing frost in the fall. 



sharp-winding ridges, separated bj^ deep, narrow valleys. The hilly 

 country represents the western extension of the Allegheny Plateau, 

 which has been so deeply eroded and dissected that all remnants of 

 the plateau surface have been removed. The greatest amount of dis- 

 section has taken place along the Ohio River and its larger tribu- 



