the impervious nature of the subsoil this type is likely 
to be poorly drained. 
The soil is composed of offshore deposits laid down 
in the glacial lakes which originally covered this region. 
For this reason it is very uniform in texture and appearance, 
The few boulders and small. bits of gravel scattered through 
it were probably dropped from floating bits of ice as they 
slowly melted. 
This soil is especially well ada ted to wheat, oats, 
rye, barley, buckwheat, grass and pasture. Blue grass seems 
to be at home on it. Usually fields which are lert for a 
time, seed themselves to it and dutch clover, even though 
tne common meadow mixtures have peeviously been sown. 
The meadow mixtures thrive for two or three years when 
they begin to deteriorate, and become replaced by blue 
grass and dutch clover. This tyye is not used for any of 
the cultivated crops, as corn, beans, and votatoes. Lt 
responds well to application of nitrogenous frertilizer, 
green manure crops and stable manure. In fact many very 
poor spots have in the past few years been entirely reclaimed 
by the application ol stable manure alone. 
When well handled this tyye gives good yields of all 
kinds of grain, With the exceytion. of corn, affords abundant 
hay crojys, and excellent pasturage. On account of its 
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