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oe oo I suppose the agricultural papers take it up more 
or less 
Mr. Wuirney. Yes. 
The Cuarrman. And draw it to the attention of the agricultural 
interest in that way ? 
Mr. Wuirney. These requests come from boards of trade, individu- 
als, and in all sorts of ways. 
Mr. Scorr. With the exception of the tobacco industry, do you 
know of anything that might be called a new industry that has been 
started by reason of these surveys, or do you know of the adaptation 
of old industries to better conditions? 
Mr. Wuitney. Yes; we have been instrumental in quite a number 
of things of that kind, that is in the introduction of sugar beets on the 
sugar-beet soils and the elimination of sugar beets on soils that are not 
adapted to them. Then we took up the question of the Albemarle 
pippin, the mountain fruit of Virginia and North Carolina, and I think 
I have a map here now of the part of the Albemarle region where we 
were able to show the soils adapted to the different kinds of apples, 
the Porter’s black loam for the Albemarle pippin, the Porter’s clay for 
the wine saps, and so by going down and studying these things we 
have been able to work out from the experience of men and from our 
own observation the important relations of those different soils to the 
different varieties of apples. 
Mr. Lamp. Right there—I learned from those people in Albemarle 
that one farm will produce the pippin and the farm right next to it 
will not produce it. 
Mr. Wuirnrr. Yes, we have worked that out, and it is in this report. 
There has been a great demand for that. We went down into the 
Mount Mitchell area, 35 miles from the railroad, to work out that sort 
of problems and made a soil survey so that they would know where to 
establish the apple orchards. It takes seven years for an apple orchard 
to come into bearing. 
Mr. Lams. You have had no results from that yet? 
Mr. Wurtney. No. 
The Cuarrman. It is not so much the development of new lines of 
work as it is the proper distribution of old lines of work? 
Mr. Wuirney. Yes. 
The Cuarrman. Not trying to raise corn where you can not raise 
corn, or wheat where you can not raise wheat. 
Mr. Wuirnry. Yes. 
The Cuarrman. Following Mr. Scott’s line of thought a few minutes 
ago, tell us the workings of a tobacco party. 
Mr. Burteson. Just one minute, Mr. Chairman, before he gets to 
that. Is there anything in this reprint to advise the farmer upon 
which particular character of soil he is to plant a particular crop? 
Mr. Wurrney. Yes. Now I will also say a word further in regard 
to the question Mr. Scott asked. We were asked to go down to the 
Fort Valley area, Georgia—the new peach area in Georgia where they 
have been so successful—and outline the soils there and find out why 
it was that they had peculiar failures at times in some of their orchards. 
We made the survey this year, which is just finished and has not been 
ublished yet, of about 200 square miles in Fort Valley. At Fort Val. 
ey the area is very peculiar. It is on a little knoll about 500 feet 
above sea level, and the location protects them in a large measure from 
