TABLE OF CONTENTS. XX* 



SPECIAL PART— AGRICULTURAL FEATURES OF THE STATE OF 

 MISSISSIPPI ; N. E. PRAIRIE REGION— 



E. Tippah, 265 ; lands between the forks of the Hatchie ; between the 

 heads of Hatchie and Tallahatchie ; S. Tippah and the Pontotoc Ridge, 

 266; "the Buncombes", "Red Sands", " Mullatto Soils", 267; 

 "analysis of Mulatto Soil", "Beeswax Homniocks" and "Bald 

 Prairie Soils " of the Pontotoc Ridge, 268 ; brokenness of the surface 

 only drawback to the Pontotoc Ridge lands ; Waters of the N. E. 

 Prairio Region, 269 ; analysis of water of " Gum Spring ", " Box 

 Spring ", of a mineral spring near Fulton, and of clay from a mineral 

 well on Bull Mountain, 270 ; waters of the Rotten Limestono Region, 

 deepest near the western border of the territory ; localities of well, 

 271 ; bored and Artesian wells of Monroe and Lownds, 272. 



THE FLAT WOODS REGION : geographical position and surface conformation, 

 p. 273-4 ; two varieties of soil in this region, viz. : light, sandy, and 

 heavy, clayey ; growth, 274-5 ; analysis of light, and heavy flatwoods 

 soil, 276-7 ; culture of light flatwoods soil, requires clay and vegeta- 

 ble matter, 277-8 ; cultivation of heavy flatwoods soil, requires lime 

 vegetable matter, sand and drainage, 770-280 ; the white oak flat- 

 woods ; peculiarities of soil and growth, 280; hills of the flatwoods 

 region; localities; peculiarities of soil and giow'lh, 281-2; bottom 

 soils of the Flatwoods ; vegetation ; springs and wells, 283 ; bored 

 wells N. and W. of Houston ; localities and depths ; waters S. and S. 

 E of Houston ; wells and springs in the hills of the Flatwoods, 2S4, 

 5 ; mineral waters characterize the wells generally ; abuse of these 

 waters, 286, 7. 



THE YELLOW LOAM REGION : boundaries of the district, its soils defined 

 generally, peculiar vegetation, p. 288 ; all degrees of transition between 

 the extremes of soils specified ; relative value shown by the forest 

 growth, form and size of trees of material account in judging, specific 

 directions given, 289, 2U0 ; table lands of Marshall and N. W. Tippah, 

 peculiarities of sod and timber ; analysis of soil and subsoil of Mar-, 

 shall county Table Lands, 291, 2 ; consideration of the analyses with 

 reference to the improvement of these soils, 292 ; tab!e lands of N. 

 W. Tippah ; waste from washing; importance of " circling", 293; 

 necessity of accurate levelling, easy method of making a level ; deep 

 plowing an additional preventive of "washes", 294, 5; country S. of 

 Wolf River and W. of Tippah Creek, 295; Lafayette county, 296 ; 

 lands of Yallabusha county, 297 ; lands of Carroll and N. E. Yazoo, 

 298 ; land of N. Attala ; uplands bordering the Poukta ; fertility of 

 the " Red Hills », 299 ; lands of S. Attala, N. E. Leake, N. Madison 

 and Calhoun, 300 ; their vegetation ; upland soils of Winston, 301-2 ; 

 lands E. of the Nanna Wauya ; face of the country ; growth, 302 ; 

 ridge soils of Kemper; soils near Daleville ; culture of the vine; 

 peculiarities of these soils best studied on the ridges of the Tallahoma 

 W. of Garlandsville, 303-4 ; height and beauty of these ridges ; 

 bottom soils of the Yellow Loam Region, 305 ; often sandy ; often cut 

 through lignitic strata and become clayey, 306 ; soils of the Talla- 

 hatchie Bottom, of the Yockeney — Patafa, of the Loosha Scoona, of 

 the Big Black, 306, 7 ; hommock soils of the last ; peculiarity of soil 

 on Dr. Vaiden's land near Shongalo, 308 ; the solis of Pearl River 

 Bottom ; vegetation ; soils of the Yockanookana, 309 ; waters of the 

 Yellow Loam Region ; bored and Artesian wells; water would prob- 

 ably be obtained at Oxford and Holly Springs at 7 or 800 feet, 310 ; 

 mineral waters of this region classified, viz : alkaline chalybeates, 

 saline chalybeates, and alum waters, 311, 312. 



THE NORTHERN RIVER COUNTIES : p. 312. 



