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THE SOILS OF CECIL COUNTY 



MECHANICAL ANALYSES OF CECIL MICA LOAM. 



No. 



Locality. 



Description. 



4222 Lewisville, % mile S. 



4223 Subsoil of 4222 



4227 Appleton, 2 miles 



NW. 



Brown micaceous 



loam, to 10 



inches. 

 Yellow loam, 10 



to 36 inches. 

 Yellow loam, 8 



to 36 inches. 



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4.70 



1.72 



10.37 



5.87 



17.64 



15.64 



6.86 



2.69 



6.44 



5.26 



22.41 



14.20 



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4.92 



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35.10 



8.59 



29.16 



12.78 



42.93 



15.50 



These soils compare faYorably with the Cecil loam, as far as their 

 productiveness is concerned. They are naturally fertile; but they 

 must be managed with care or their fertility is soon lost. They con- 

 tain some quartz rock and broken pieces of gneiss and schist oil the 

 surface, but not so large an amount as the Cecil loam. Generally, 

 they are mellow soils, easy to till, and respond quickly to the appli- 

 cations of manures or commercial fertilizers, such as tankage, ground 

 bone and phosphates. 



Corn, wheat and grass are grown on these soils, and the yields 

 equal those of the Cecil loam. Prom 15 to 25 and 30 bushels of 

 wheat, 45 to 60 bushels of corn, and 1 to 2 tons of hay are the crop 

 yields in favorable seasons. Tomatoes and corn are grown for can- 

 ning purposes. The crop rotations practiced are practically the 

 same as on the other soils. As a general rule small, well-improved, 

 and carefullv cultivated farms are found in this formation. 



CONOWINGO BARRENS. 



We now come to a class of residual soils occurring on the uplands 

 of the Piedmont Plateau, which, although not differing greatly in 

 texture from the soils just described, are found to be well-nigh worth- 

 less when their productiveness is considered. This is the type of 

 soil known as the Conowingo barrens. Pour small areas are found 

 in the extreme northwestern corner of Cecil countv. Two of these 



